Research Article
Prevalence and Risk Factors of Discordance between Left- and Right-Hip Bone Mineral Density Using DXA
Table 6
Prevalence of diagnosis discordances between left and right hips sorted by sex and BMI.
| | | Major discordance | Minor discordance 2 |
| Sample study | () | 50 (28.4%) | 13 (7.4%) | () | 318 (14.7%) | 147 (6.8%) | () | 111 (9.7%) | 67 (5.9%) |
| Females | () | 38 (38.4%) | 5 (5.1%) | () | 287 (17%) | 114 (6.7%) | () | 110 (10.2%) | 65 (6%) |
| Males | () | 12 (15.6%) | 8 (10.4%) | () | 31 (6.6%) | 33 (7%) | () | 1 (1.7%) | 2 (3.4%) |
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Minor discordance 2: osteoporosis in one hip and osteopenia in the other hip; major discordance: osteoporosis in one hip and normal BMD in the other.
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