Clinical Study
Comparison of the Spine and Hip BMD Assessments Derived from Quantitative Computed Tomography
Table 2
The diagnostic rates classification with vBMD versus aBMD in females.
| | Location | Osteoporosis QCT (%) | Osteopenia QCT (%) | Normal QCT (%) |
| | Age <50 y () | | | | | Lumbar spine (vBMD) | 20 (8.9%) | 50 (22.2%) | 155 (68.9%) | | Hip (aBMD) | 2 (0.9%) | 57 (25.3%) | 166 (73.8%) | | Age ≥50 y () | | | | | Lumbar spine (vBMD) | 89 (32.8%) | 80 (29.5%) | 102 (37.6%) | | Hip (aBMD) | 44 (16.2%) | 126 (46.5%) | 101 (37.3%) |
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