Measurement of forearm bone mineral density: comparison of precision of five different instruments

Calcified Tissue International
P HeilmannR Ziegler

Abstract

Measurement of bone mineral density (BMD) is used for clinical estimation of fracture risk in osteoporosis. The precision of the method is important for the evaluation of true and clinical relevant changes in BMD in patients with osteoporosis. We measured BMD of the forearm in 14 young, healthy probands (10 males, 4 females), aged 24. 6 +/- 1.5 years with five different instruments using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), single-photon absorptiometry (SPA), and peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT). Precision was expressed as the percentage coefficient of variation (CV%). In addition, the standardized CV% (sCV%) and the root mean square standard deviation (rmsSD%) was calculated for long-term precision. CV% ranged from 1.04 (SPA, distal BMD) to 2.75% (pQCT, trabecular BMD) for short-term precision and from 1.49 (DXA, QDR 1000, 1/3-distal BMD) to 4.33% (SPA, ultradistal) for long-term precision, respectively. The results for the rmsSD% were higher but correlated well with the CV%. A change that exceeds 2 radical2 CV% has been considered as being significant. On this basis, 24.0 +/- 5.1% (mean +/- SEM) of the participants in our study would be expected to have a significant change in BMD without any correlation ...Continue Reading

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