We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
there are some dexa places that only give total body z-score for bone and they don't break it out individually by hip and lumbar spine this is important because and I again I believe I spoke about this on the previous AMA you can't make a diagnosis of osteopenia or osteoporosis or frankly assess uh bmd clinically without that feature in other words if you just look at total body bmd the z-score for the total body is um it's it's too easy to mask what's going on in those areas
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I wouldn't use the value the bmd value that I get from the total scan as a marker or is any index for osteopenia osteoporosis because the who definition was actually based at the hip um in fact it was based on femoral neck we've moved away from looking at femoral neck as the standard and we look at total hip now