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ba0001pp329 | Osteoporosis: evaluation and imaging | ECTS2013

Discordance of Z-score in healthy premenopausal women with BMD below the expected range of age and contributing factors: the Korea national health and nutrition examination survey 2008–2009

Sung-Kil Lim , Park Kyeong Hye , Kim Kyoung Min , Lim Jung Soo , Rhee Yumie

Discordance of T-score is frequently observed and affects to therapeutic strategy in osteoporosis. Z-score discordance in premenopausal women has not been reported yet. In addition, despite of important role of low bone mineral density (BMD) in premenopausal women to predict osteoporotic fracture in postmenopausal age, there are very few reports on the status of low BMD in healthy premenopausal women. To investigate the current status of idiopathic osteoporos...