Bone densitometer is a specialized device used to measure bone density, diagnose osteoporosis, monitor the effects of exercise or treatment, and predict fracture risk. According to the results of bone density examination and the clinical characteristics of patients, low bone density in children can be detected early, and the risk of osteoporosis in adults can be well evaluated.
Clinical Significance of Children’s Bone Density Test
As the basic stage and initial point of human bone development, infants and young children play an important role in the guidance of growth and development. Children’s bone density examination can detect low bone density in children early, help prevent calcium deficiency in children, and have a role in preventing the occurrence of rickets. Strong guiding role.
Which children need to pay more attention to bone density?
1. Infants with a history of premature birth or low birth weight.
2. Children with asthma treated with glucocorticoids have lower bone strength than normal children of the same age.
3. Suspected children with calcium deficiency, that is, infants and young children who have symptoms such as restless sleep, easy sweating, fright, and night cry, or occipital baldness, O/X-shaped legs, chicken breasts, and funnel chest.
4. Picky eaters, partial eclipses, especially children who do not like dairy products.
5. Fast-growing, obese infants and young children.
6. Short stature, stunted children and adolescents.
7. Long-term treatment with steroids, chemotherapy, or anticonvulsants.
8. Children with a family history of osteoporosis.
9. Children who lack physical activity or have repeated fractures .
Clinical Significance of Adult Bone Density Test
Osteoporosis is a systemic decrease in bone mass, characterized by changes in the microstructure of bone tissue, and causes increased bone fragility and decreased bone density. In the case of no trauma, mild and moderate trauma, the risk of fracture increased disease. It has two characteristics: decreased bone density and increased bone fragility; prone to fractures, and can be divided into primary and secondary osteoporosis.
According to statistics, 1/3 of women in the world are suffering from osteoporosis, and the number of patients with osteoporosis is increasing day by day, and its mortality rate is also increasing rapidly. Because osteoporosis is so frequent and harmful, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated October 20th as “World Osteoporosis Day” in 1998 to raise people’s attention to osteoporosis. Enhance self-care awareness. The prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis has become a top priority.
Adults are especially suitable for the following groups of people:
1. Pregnant women, due to their special physiological characteristics, pregnant women are very likely to become a group with osteopenia, which may even affect the growth and development of the fetus. It is recommended to test once in the early, middle and late stages of pregnancy. (1-12 weeks of pregnancy is the early stage, 13-27 weeks is the middle stage, >28 weeks is the third trimester)
2. Premenopausal or menopausal women.
3. Patients with short stature and bone diseases.
4. Treated with glucocorticoids.
5. People who lack calcium, vitamin D intake, smoking, excessive drinking, coffee, and lack of exercise.
6. For patients with primary hyperparathyroidism, necessary examinations before surgery.
7. Patients who lack exercise or are bedridden for a long time.
8. Patients with renal dysfunction, in order to monitor the effect of excessive hyperparathyroid hormone. 9. Hyperthyroidism or patients receiving thyroid hormone therapy. 10. Patients with malabsorption syndrome.
11. The height has dropped by more than 3 centimeters, and the weight has dropped by more than 5 kilograms.
12. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis, even if they do not receive glucocorticoids.
Detecting bone density through a bone densitometry can help us understand the speed of bone loss, and determine the efficacy of various preventive and therapeutic measures, so as to reduce the blind understanding of osteoporosis, correct and scientific calcium supplementation, and reduce the risk of bone loss. The impact and burden of osteoporosis and other complications on individuals.
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Post time: Feb-28-2023