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Bone Mineral Density Test for Osteoporosis
Bibliography on Bone Mineral Density Test for Osteoporosis

HealthYes! Executives and Medical Advisory Board members have gone to great lengths to ensure that all screening procedures and medical information are correct and backed by medical research, medical journals and clinical testing. Below you will find a comprehensive annotated medical bibliography on Bone Mineral Density Test for Osteoporosis, including citations. The information provided is designed to aid medical reporters and physicians in understanding the screenings, methodologies, and technologies employed by HealthYes! Preventive Screening.

Cheng N, Green ME. Osteoporosis screening for men: are family physicians following the guidelines? Can Fam Physician 2008; 54:1140-1141, 1141.e1-5
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18697977
“On average, only about 20% of male patients older than 65 years had been screened for osteoporosis, so most of these men were not being screened by BMD testing as recommended in the guidelines. Considering the relatively high rates of osteoporosis and osteopenia found in this study and the known morbidity and mortality associated with osteoporotic fractures in this population, higher rates of BMD screening and more widespread treatment of osteoporosis could prevent many fractures among these patients.”

Guessous I, Cornuz J, Ruffieux C, Burckhardt P, Krieg MA. Osteoporotic fracture risk in elderly women: estimation with quantitative heel US and clinical risk factors. Radiology 2008; 248:179-84.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18483227

Díez-Pérez A, González-Macías J, Marín F, Abizanda M, Alvarez R, Gimeno A, et al. Prediction of absolute risk of non-spinal fractures using clinical risk factors and heel quantitative ultrasound. Osteoporos Int 2007; 18:629-39.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17235664

Lafata JE, Kolk D, Peterson EL, McCarthy BD, Weiss TW, Chen YT, Muma BK. Improving osteoporosis screening: results from a randomized cluster trial. J Gen Intern Med 2007; 22:346-51.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17356966

McBean AM, Yu X The underuse of screening services among elderly women with diabetes. Diabetes Care 2007; 30:1466-72.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17351285

McNally DN, Kenny AM, Smith JA Adherence of academic geriatric practitioners to osteoporosis screening guidelines. Osteoporos Int 2007; 18:177-83.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17043904.
“This study suggests that with improved physician education and familiarity with the disease, high rates of BMD testing for earlier identification of geriatric patients at risk for osteoporosis are achievable.”

Wilkins CH. Osteoporosis screening and risk management. Clin Interv Aging 2007; 2:389-94.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18044189

Adler RA. The need for increasing awareness of osteoporosis in men. Clin Cornerstone 2006; 8 Suppl 3:S7-13.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17046428

Gourlay ML, Preisser JS, Callahan LF, Linville JC, Sloane PD. Survey of osteoporosis preventive care in community family medicine settings. Fam Med 2006; 38:724-30.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17075746
Survey of 275 women. Only half of women age 65 and older and 43.8% of women under 65 had received bone density testing. “Ninety-two percent of the respondents rated a discussion of osteoporosis and fracture prevention with their primary care provider as "very," "moderately," or "somewhat" important, but only 44% actually had such a discussion.”

Lacroix AZ, Buist DS, Brenneman SK, Abbott TA 3rd. Evaluation of three population-based strategies for fracture prevention: results of the osteoporosis population-based risk assessment (OPRA) trial. Med Care 2005; 43:293-302.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15725986
“The degree to which BMD testing was offered to women in a fracture prevention program significantly affected total fracture rates, change in some fracture risk factors, and knowledge about risk factors.”

Brennan RM, Wactawski-Wende J, Crespo CJ, Dmochowski J. Factors associated with treatment initiation after osteoporosis screening. Am J Epidemiol 2004; 160:475-83.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15321845
Study of 945 post-menopausal women. “These findings suggest that many postmenopausal women are unaware of their bone density and could benefit from screening. In this study, approximately half of the women with osteoporosis initiated treatment after screening. Disease severity, medical care frequency, education, income, and physician type predicted treatment initiation.”

Buist DS, LaCroix AZ, Brenneman SK, Abbott T 3rd. A population-based osteoporosis screening program: who does not participate, and what are the consequences? J Am Geriatr Soc 2004; 52:1130-7.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15209651
“… women who do not participate in osteoporosis screening should be pursued to identify individuals who could benefit from primary and secondary osteoporosis prevention.”

Wilkins CH, Goldfeder JS. Osteoporosis screening is unjustifiably low in older African-American women. J Natl Med Assoc 2004; 96:461-7.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15101666

Feldstein AC, Nichols GA, Elmer PJ, Smith DH, Aickin M, Herson M. Older women with fractures: patients falling through the cracks of guideline-recommended osteoporosis screening and treatment. J Bone Joint Surg Am 2003; 85-A:2294-302.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14668497

Feldstein A, Elmer PJ, Orwoll E, Herson M, Hillier T. Bone mineral density measurement and treatment for osteoporosis in older individuals with fractures: a gap in evidence-based practice guideline implementation. Arch Intern Med 2003; 163:2165-72.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14557214
“Evaluation and treatment rates for osteoporosis in older individuals with fractures fall far below national recommendations, especially for men. Intervention strategies should be developed and evaluated to prevent refracture in older individuals with fractures.”

Moyad MA. Osteoporosis: a rapid review of risk factors and screening methods. Urol Oncol 2003; 21:375-9.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14670548

Chesnut CH III. Osteoporosis, an underdiagnosed disease. JAMA 2001; 286:2865-6.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11735763
National Osteoporosis Risk Assessment study provides a stringent and scientifically rigorous evaluation of the utility of the peripheral densitometry/utlrasonography technologies for large screening groups of women for bone loss and generally supports the validity of these modes in screening of large populations for osteoporotic risk.

Melton LJD, Kan SH, Wahner HW, Riggs BL. Lifetime fracture risk: an approach to hip fracture risk assessment based on bone mineral density and age. J Clin Epidemiol 1988; 41:985-994.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3193143

Kanis JA. Assessment of fracture risk and its application to screening for postmenopausal osteoporosis: synopsis of a WHO report. WHO Study Group. Osteoporos Int 1994; 4:368-81.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7696835

Faulkner KG. Bone densitometry: choosing the proper skeletal site to measure. J Clin Densitom 1998; 1:279-85.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15304900

National Osteoporosis Foundation. Important Disease Facts.
http://www.nof.org:80/other/statsitics/html

Epstein S, Miller P. Bone mass measurements the case for selected screening? Trends Endocrinol Metab 1997 May-Jun;8(4):157-60.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18406802

 

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