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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that women over the age of 65 should get a DXA scan. [3] The age when men should be tested is uncertain, [3] but some sources recommend age 70. [4] At risk women should consider getting a scan when their risk is equal to that of a normal 65-year-old woman.
DXA scans assume a constant relationship between the amounts of lean soft tissue and adipose tissue. This assumption leads to measurement errors, with an impact on accuracy as well as precision. To reduce soft-tissue errors in DXA, DXL technology was developed in the late 1990s by a team of Swedish researchers led by Prof. Ragnar Kullenberg.
Aspirin in men 45 to 79 and women 55 to 79 for cardiovascular disease; Colon cancer screening by colonoscopy, occult blood testing, or sigmoidoscopy in adults 45 to 75. [11] Low-dose CT scans for adults 55 to 80 at increased risk of lung cancer; Osteoporosis screening via bone dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) in women over 65
DXA is only able to provide the areal bone mineral density. High-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT) is better than DXA at detecting bone microarchitecture, modeling whole-bone geometry using 3-dimensional information from scans. This method allows estimation of bone strength and other mechanical properties. [20]
Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA scan) is considered the gold standard for the diagnosis of osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is diagnosed when the bone mineral density is less than or equal to 2.5 standard deviations below that of a young (30–40-year-old [4]:58), healthy adult women reference population.
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A scanner used to measure bone density using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry. Bone density, or bone mineral density, is the amount of bone mineral in bone tissue.The concept is of mass of mineral per volume of bone (relating to density in the physics sense), although clinically it is measured by proxy according to optical density per square centimetre of bone surface upon imaging. [1]
Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry, or DXA (formerly DEXA), is a newer method for estimating body fat percentage, and determining body composition and bone mineral density. X-rays of two different energies are used to scan the body, one of which is absorbed more strongly by fat than the other.