| Few diseases can be considered as silent assassins; | | | | your bone mineral density. |
| meaning, conditions that can slowly take your life | | | | When your doctor knows what your bone mineral |
| without you knowing it. Osteoporosis is one such | | | | density is, your risk of having bone fractures and |
| condition. Although this condition does not instantly | | | | osteoporosis can be easily and more accurately |
| lead to death like cardiac arrest, it can surely take | | | | studied. With the same information, your body's |
| away your lifestyle as you know it. One's loss of | | | | response to any ongoing treatment against |
| bone density can be difficult to predict and prevent | | | | osteoporosis can be closely monitored too. These |
| just like that of cancer or diabetes. | | | | results have made bone densitometry become the |
| With osteoporosis, you can go on with your life as if | | | | widely-accepted means of identifying the existence |
| nothing wrong is happening to your bone structure. | | | | of osteoporosis in individuals. |
| The only time that you will know you have | | | | Unlike ordinary x-ray machines where you need to |
| osteoporosis is when you start breaking bones far | | | | experience a decline in bone density of at least 30% |
| too easily. In fact, this condition will not even render | | | | before the onset of osteoporosis can be detected, |
| you any signs of physical weakness. What makes | | | | bone densitometry can provide you with an analysis |
| things more complicated is that osteoporosis shares | | | | regarding your future susceptibility to osteoporosis |
| the same symptoms with most other diseases; | | | | based on the present indications of your bone mineral |
| hence, it is easy for medical doctors to overlook the | | | | density. This gives you a lot of time to prepare and |
| fact that you are already suffering from this disease. | | | | take in necessary supplements to reverse the loss of |
| Although symptoms like a steady decline in your | | | | minerals in your bone structure. |
| height, excruciating back pain, and noticeable changes | | | | Apart from osteoporosis, a bone density test is |
| in your overall posture can point at osteoporosis, | | | | often required by your doctor if you are in your |
| many people are still unaware about this condition | | | | menopausal stage wherein bone loss is often a |
| until their bones actually snap like ice cream sticks. | | | | symptom. If you had a bad fall and you had a |
| The key to preparing against osteoporosis, and other | | | | fractured bone, bone densitometry can also help you |
| silent killer diseases for that matter, is to undergo | | | | check out the rate at which your bone heals and the |
| diagnostic exams and early treatment procedures if | | | | effects of the medication that you take in. You must |
| you are found to be positive with the disease. | | | | also remember that you become more prone to loss |
| For osteoporosis, doctors offer bone densitometry | | | | of bone density or osteoporosis as you grow older; |
| to determine the density of your bones. This | | | | testing your bone mineral density via bone |
| procedure, also referred to as bone density testing, | | | | densitometry becomes more imperative as you step |
| makes use of a device fitted with double energy | | | | into your forties or fifties. This way, you will be more |
| x-ray that can measure the rate at which photon | | | | aware about how to take good care of your bone |
| beams are absorbed by a particular body part. The | | | | structures. |
| information that this machine can deliver measures | | | | |