Developing a policy on osteoporosis

doi:10.1136/bmj.312.7040.1225

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Dual energy x ray absorptiometry may not be the gold standard

Colin R Paterson

Honorary consultant Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY

EDITOR,—I wish to comment on one aspect of the debate on the prevention of osteoporosis.1 Implicit in much current thinking is the view that dual energy x ray absorptiometry of the spine and hip is the method of choice for bone densitometry. The Advisory Group on Osteoporosis, for example, provided details only of the number of installations for this method in Britain. Those unfamiliar with the subject may assume that this is the only reputable type of densitometry.

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