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Do petite women get over-diagnosed with osteoporosis?

Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: May 25 12:06pm | Replies (48)
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@amyt123
I think you're right to be suspicious. I had a REMS, I am petite at 5 ft and 117 pounds, it indicated that my bones were in much worse shape (spine -3.5, hips -2.7) than the DEXA indicated (spine -1.8 but endo said to disregard my spine as I have bone spurs and scoliosis, hips -2.3 and stable for several years). Not sure how much training goes into the osetostrong tech doing the test but mine didn't have much.

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gravity3 | @gravity3 | May 18 6:08am

@hungrybirder

There are some older threads on Osteostrong. You can find them as subheadings under Osteoporosis when you do a search for Osteostrong.

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