ea0045p9 | Bone | BSPED2016
Park Julie
, Alsaffar Hussain
, Frerichs Carley
, Parvatti Prashant
, Dharmaraj Poonam
, Das Urmi
, Didi Mohamed
, Ramakrishnan Renuka
, Senniappan Senthil
, Abernethy Laurence
, Blair Jo
Background: BoneXpert software calculates bone health index (BHI) from 100 measurements of cortical thickness and mineralisation of three metacarpals. BHI-SDS is derived from 3,121 X-rays from 231 healthy Caucasian children, corrected for bone age (BA), estimated from the same x-ray.BHI-SDS is new with relatively unknown clinical utility. Strong correlations between BHI and dual-energy x-ray (DXA) absorptiometry and peripheral quantitative computed CT me...