%0 Journal Article
%T Measurements of bone mineral density and stiffness index in young Saudi females
%A Lina Fahmi Hammad
%J Archive of "Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences".
%D 2016
%R 10.12669/pjms.322.9757
%X To examine the ability to use Quantitative Ultrasonography (QUS) densitometer for screening of osteoporosis and osteopenia by comparing QUS values obtained at the calcaneus region to bone mineral density (BMD) values measured at the spine and the neck of the femur using Dual Energy X-ray Absorbemetry (DXA)
%K QUS
%K DXA
%K SI
%K BMD
%K T-score
%K Saudi Female
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4859031/