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ReviewSkeletal radiology2025

Quantitative CT lumbar spine BMD cutpoint value for classifying osteoporosis among older Chinese men can be the same as that of older Chinese women, both much lower than the value for Caucasians.

Yì Xiáng J Wáng, Wing P Chan, Wei Yu, Ali Guermazi, James F Griffith

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Review in Skeletal radiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Yì Xiáng J WángDepartment of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China. yixiang_wang@cuhk.edu.hk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5697-0717
Wing P ChanDepartment of Radiology, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Wei YuDepartment of Radiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Ali GuermaziDepartment of Radiology, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
James F GriffithDepartment of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For older Caucasian women and men, the QCT (quantitative CT) lumbar spine (LS) bone mineral density (BMD) threshold for classifying osteoporosis is 80 mg/ml. It was recently proposed that, for older East Asian women, the QCT LS BMD value equivalent to the Caucasian women's threshold of 80 mg/mL is about 45∼50 mg/ml. For a data of 328 cases of Chinese men (age: 73.6 ± 4.4 years) who had QCT LS BMD and DXA LS BMD at the same time and with the DXA BMD value of ≤ 0.613 g/cm

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Absorptiometry, PhotonBone DensityLumbar VertebraeOsteoporosisTomography, X-Ray ComputedAgedChinaEast Asian PeopleFemaleHumansMaleOsteoporotic FracturesPrevalenceSpinal FracturesWhite PeopleBone mineral density (BMD)Chinese menlumbar spineOsteoporosisQuantitative CT

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PMID38902421
PMCPMC11652400

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