Open AccessDual energy x-ray absorptiometry for diagnosis of bone mineral density in pre and post – menopausal women.
Author(s) -
Mustafa Abd Almajeed,
Thamer A Hamdan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1294/6/062024
Subject(s) - medicine , osteopenia , bone mineral , osteoporosis , femoral neck , menopause , dual energy , lumbar spine , bone density , dual energy x ray absorptiometry , urology , gynecology , radiology , physical therapy , nuclear medicine , surgery
Osteoporosis is a common metabolic bone disorder causing fractures and incurring substantial morbidity and mortality specially in women after menopause. Patients and Methods: The bone mineral density of (172) pre and post-menopausal women with a mean age (31.5) and (64.5) years respectively underwent dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) during the period. (BMD) measurements and the resulting patient classification based on T- scores values according to WHO criteria. Results: (54.08% ) of post- menopausal women were in the osteoporotic range specially in spine, (29.12%) of them had osteopenia, while the others were in normal (24.96%). In premenopausal women (7.48%) had osteoporosis, (14.28%) had osteopenia and (24.48 %) had normal bone mineral density according to the WHO criteria. Conclusions: This study shows lower BMD T –score for the lumbar spine and femoral neck in post – menopausal women compared with lumbar spine and femoral neck in pre-menopausal women according to the WHO criteria.