Bone Abstracts

Objective: The objective of this study was to enable migration of DXA data of patients following replacement of the GE Lunar DPX-Pro, pencil beam densitometer with GE Lunar iDXA, fan beam densitometer.Methods: Scans of total body were conducted for 67 subjects, aged 3.0 to 19.9 years, on both machines. A sub-set of six subjects (3 boys) were randomly selected and reserved as a validation sample. Differences between the values obtained on the two machines...

Objectives: Earlier studies performed using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry indicate that underprivileged Indian girls acquire low bone mass during adolescence. Therefore, aim was to assess bone geometry of underprivileged Indian adolescent girls (age 12–19 years) using peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT).Methods: Fifty-six adolescent girls were assessed for anthropometry (height, weight) (February 2016 to January 2017) and pQCT (STR...

Objective: Although there is adequate sunlight throughout the year, low serum 25OHD concentrations are being increasingly reported among Indian children (Gupta, 2014). Thus, quantifying individual sunlight exposure may be an important step in understanding hypovitaminosis D in sun-rich geographies. The objectives of our study were to quantify the sunlight exposure of school-children using a questionnaire and to use polysulphone film badges to validate the questionnaire adminis...