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Article: Bone Mineral Density Exam As An Indicator Of Fracture Risk Simplified.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- October 17, 2001
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2001 OCT 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- CompuMed, Inc. presented findings of an investigation of phalangeal bone mineral density (BMD) in a normal Chinese population at the First International Conference on Bone Mineral Research, held in Beijing, China in September 2001.
The study, sponsored by CompuMed, was conducted using the OsteoGram, proprietary software that utilizes a standard x-ray machine to determine bone mineral density as an indicator of fracture risk.
Dr. Liu Zhonghou, a prominent medical expert on osteoporosis in China, conducted the study in conjunction with the China Osteoporosis Foundation.
"We were happy to find that the ...