DEXA scan results for bone mineral density must be reported segmentally, including T-scores for the lumbar spine and at least one hip, to adequately assess fracture risk.

“you need to make sure that it's reported segmentally so a lot of places that do a dexa scan don't give you the hip and lumbar spine readings they'll just give you total body tcore and zcore and unfortunately that is not sufficient to understand your risk so you need a t-core for the lumbar spine and you need a t-core for at least one if not both of the hips”

“now it's really important if you are getting a dexa scan because you want this information you need to make sure that it's reported segmentally so a lot of places that do a dexa scan don't give you the hip and lumbar spine readings they'll just give you total body tcore and zcore and unfortunately that is not sufficient to understand your risk so you need a t-core for the lumbar spine and you need a t-core for at least one if not both of the hips”

“giving you segmental bone analysis for left hip, right hip, lumbar spine. A lot of DEXA places can only give you whole body BMD. So they'll just spit out the Zcore for that one uh for that one metric, but they won't give it to you segmentally.”

“So if you want to know your bone health, make sure before you go and get the DEXA scan, you confirm with the entity doing this that they are giving you segmental bone analysis for left hip, right hip, lumbar spine. A lot of DEXA places can only give you whole body BMD.”