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Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: May 2 7:43am | Replies (73)
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@callalloo

I guess that DEXAs can vary, depending upon the hardware used? Or can the operator make a difference? It's odd to me too. Given that a diagnosis of osteoporosis, leading to drug recommendations, can rest on the DEXA data, a tad more precision would be appreciated!

I'm with you on just doing all of the common sense things I can figure out to maintain or even augment the bone density that I have to the best of my ability.

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aspine | @aspine | Jul 10, 2022

Hi, CAllallo,
When I retired, I was a year and a half away from Medicare. So went to a different medical group during that time until I could go back to my old one. Well, I was due for my DEXA. They did it at the new facility. But they also told me it could not be compared to my old scans because they use a "different" DEXA scanner. Apparently, you need to stay with the same brand (?) of scanner to be able to compare old files.

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