BHI reference curves in 12 populations
New results on Bone Health Index reference curves for 12 populations spanning Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America were presented at the recent International Conference on Children’s Bone Health in Salzburg.
Hand radiographs as a potential replacement for DXA in osteopenia screening
At the European Society of Paediatric Radiology (ESPR) conference held in Sevilla in June 2024, Karen Rosendahl of Tromsø (awarded the ESPR 2024 Gold Medal) gave a talk titled “Revisiting Osteopenia.”
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Fracture study from Birmingham
Bone Health Index is significantly lower in children with vertebral fractures than in children without.
Bone Health Index demonstrates relation to fractures in Klinefelter children
A study published in Journal of the Endocrine Society by Vogiatzi and Ross of Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, followed 90 Klinefelter boys, half of which were treated with Oxandrolone – an anabolic steroid.
(Males have one X and one Y chromosome and females have two X chromosomes. Klinefelter boys have two X and one Y chromosome, i.e. XXY. The incidence Klinefelter Syndrome is 1 of 800 boys.)
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How well does Bone Health Index correlate with DXA?
The journal “Bone” brings a new paper entitled “Which skeletal imaging modality is best for assessing bone health in children and young adults compared to DXA? A systematic review and meta-analysis”, by Heba Shalof, Paul Dimitri, Farag Shuweihdi, and Amaka C Offiah.
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BoneXpert validated in Afghan toddlers
A new paper by Suma Uday et al reports the use of BoneXpert to study bone age and BHI in deprived Afghan children of age 1.5-2.5 y. This validates version 3 of BoneXpert, which extends the bone age range down to new-borns – the older version of BoneXpert was valid only down to 2.5 years.
Assessment of arthritis with BoneXpert
Two new papers report the use of BoneXpert to assess rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis. They exploit the recent extension of BoneXpert’s measurement of cortical thickness in the metacarpals to adults.
The world’s first osteoporosis screening
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen’s first public presentation of the new X-rays took place on the 23rd of January 1896 in Würzburg.
The Swiss anatomist Albert von Kölliker volunteered to have his hand X-rayed during the lecture, and the resulting image has now been analysed with a new version of BoneXpert, presented in the Archives of Osteoporosis
New paper on Bone Health Index
Osteoporosis International has published a paper on a new pediatric bone index in BoneXpert (also known as the Bone Health Index, BHI). The full text of the paper is freely avaliable as a pdf