Preparing for a medical test often triggers health anxiety, making it easy to worry about hidden conditions and care needs. While a DEXA scan is the gold standard for spotting osteoporosis and weak ...

Guest Contributor Dr. Rosina Shrestha is a board-certified internal medicine physician with the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group. She sees patients at the Kaiser Permanente White Marsh Medical ...

Some doctors and influencers say women shouldn’t wait until their 60s for a DEXA scan. Here’s what to consider before getting one.

The doctors andnurses at the emergency room in Jacksonville, Florida, were "perplexed," as Dia Thomas remembers it. They believed her when she said she was in pain—imaging had revealed fractures in ...

Educational update explains DXA testing, T-scores, fracture-risk factors and questions adults can discuss with ...

If a doctor thinks a person may have osteoporosis or be at risk, they may recommend a bone density scan or dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA or DEXA) scan. These scans use an X-ray to measure the ...

Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry, or DEXA for short, is an exam that helps your provider determine if you are at risk for fracture caused by low bone mineral density. Several risk factors like age, ...

Typically, when people say they’re trying to lose weight, what they actually mean is they’re trying change their body composition—they're trying to be leaner. A lower number on the scale could be an ...

It’s time to get hip to this bone density and body composition test. Osteoporosis may seem like an old person’s problem — the “silent” condition gradually reduces bone mass and density, making your ...