Osteoporosis - Diagnosis - Dual-energy X-ray

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Structured data parsed from Wikipedia. Dual energy X ray 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:58), healthy adult women reference population. This is translated as a T score. But because bone density decreases with age, more people become osteoporotic with increasing age.:58 The World Health Organization has established the following diagnostic guidelines:

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Data row number	Category	T-score range	% young women

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Name	Description	Data Type
Category		text
T-score range		text
% young women		text

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