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During the Bone Health Summit 2.0 last month, Dr Keith McCormick did an interview titled Osteoporosis Medication and an Integrative approach to Treatment. In the interview when asked about Forteo and Tymlos, he said that, as @windyshores pointed out, the femoral neck is mostly cortical bone. I think he said that the spine is 40% cortical, and the total hip (not the femoral neck alone) is 50% cortical, and the total hip usually does have an increase in BMD but not as much as the spine. To the best of my memory, he didn't say anything specifically about the femoral neck. If windyshores is correct that it's 80% cortical, then I'm guessing that any increase there is likely negligible.
He did mention that sometimes the BMD of the forearm decreases with Forteo and Tymlos. Because he brought that up, I think he would have also mentioned if it also happens with the hip.
The best OP drugs for the hip, per Dr McCormick in the same interview, are Evenity (up to 6%) , and Prolia (5-6%).

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I was told by my doc that Tymlos is better than Forteo in regard to cortical bone. Maybe that is not true? And Evenity even better. My docs barely use Prolia. The forearm and femur neck are sometimes discussed together as being high in cortical bone. McCormick may have just stuck with spine and hip in the discussion_?

DEXA's of femur neck are not reliable to measure changes, apparently.

Is there anyway to see the bone health summit online?