Endocrine Abstracts

Question: Can be reliably diagnosed osteoporosis with quantitative ultrasound of bone? Can the therapeutic progress of a specific osteoporosis therapy reliably judged by that?Patients and methods: Three hundred and twenty patients were enrolled between July 1999 and October 2004. All patients were studied in the osteoporosis clinic at time 0, after 1, 2 and 3 years. BMD was done with Hologic QDR-1000 (low back or hip) and the Osteometer DTU one (paramete...