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Bone turnover markers (CTX and P1NP): do you have a baseline?

Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Oct 5 5:35pm | Replies (183)
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@hopefulheart

Thanks
But confused since mine is 9.08 and I’m close to 10
How would your 4.2 seem like you don’t have osteoporosis but do ?

Shouldn’t we be close to 10?

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njhornung | @normahorn | Jul 4 11:22am

As I understand it, the larger the number is means that one is losing bone faster than building new bone. Conversely, the smaller the number, bone building is occurring at a faster rate than bone loss is. However, that is a far too simplistic approach but makes people feel that they have some control.

The value would come in monitoring changes during treatment.

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