“Every 20 seconds someone in the United States breaks a bone as a result of osteoporosis.”

Agenda

• Osteoporosis Facts
• Your DXA-Discovery A
• Radiation Dose
• Why DXA?
• Who is at risk?
• BMD & VFA (Vertebral Fracture Risk Assessments)
• Osteoporosis, BMD and T-scores
• FRAX™
• New Treatment Recommendations
• Obesity
• Pediatrics

Objectives

• Identify patients at risk of fracture.
• Clarify the use of T and Z-Scores according to the International Society of Clinical Densitometry’s Guidelines.
• Utilize the World Health Organization’s 10-Year Absolute Fracture Risk Assessment Tool, i.e. FRAX.
• Demonstrate how DXA Body Composition measurements can be used clinically.

Speaker

Joyce M. Paucek, BSEE
Osteoporosis and MRI Sales Specialist, Hologic