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Can a bone density test yield different results on different bones?
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@jozer I wondered this same thing, but someone on Mayo Clinic Connect sent me an article by a well-known expert in osteoporosis demonstrating that getting to a score of -1.5 is just as good at lowering the risk of a fracture as a score of -1.0, the standard score of a 30-year-old woman.
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@sebutler I think that the definition of 0 T score is the average of a 30yo woman, although -1.0 or better is considered within normal range.
https://www.uab.edu/shp/toneyourbones/step-2-bone-density-testing/the-results-of-your-scan/t-scores