No calcium before bone density test? 
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 No calcium before bone density test?

        Was instructed  to take no calcium for 24 hours before
bone density test.  Surprised.  Didn't realize calcium was
absorbed so quickly that it could distort results.

        Fact or fiction?

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Polar



Sat, 23 Oct 2004 10:35:17 GMT
 No calcium before bone density test?

Quote:

> Was instructed  to take no calcium for 24 hours before
> bone density test.  Surprised.  Didn't realize calcium was
> absorbed so quickly that it could distort results.

> Fact or fiction?

Silly fiction if you got a real DEXA. What was the exact name of the test
and machine used?

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Sat, 23 Oct 2004 12:16:57 GMT
 No calcium before bone density test?
On Mon, 6 May 2002 22:16:57 -0600, "Steve Harris"

Quote:



>> Was instructed  to take no calcium for 24 hours before
>> bone density test.  Surprised.  Didn't realize calcium was
>> absorbed so quickly that it could distort results.

>> Fact or fiction?

>Silly fiction if you got a real DEXA. What was the exact name of the test
>and machine used?

Duh.  Will call the hospital and inquire.

Am concerned, additionally, because tech said this is a *new*
machine, so howinhell is the radiologist, or whoever reads the
scan, supposed to adjust between last year's and this year's
results??!!

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Mon, 25 Oct 2004 07:14:07 GMT
 No calcium before bone density test?

Quote:
> On Mon, 6 May 2002 22:16:57 -0600, "Steve Harris"



> >> Was instructed  to take no calcium for 24 hours before
> >> bone density test.  Surprised.  Didn't realize calcium was
> >> absorbed so quickly that it could distort results.

> >> Fact or fiction?

> >Silly fiction if you got a real DEXA. What was the exact name of the test
> >and machine used?

> Duh.  Will call the hospital and inquire.

> Am concerned, additionally, because tech said this is a *new*
> machine, so howinhell is the radiologist, or whoever reads the
> scan, supposed to adjust between last year's and this year's
> results??!!

Same way he would for any X-ray. Calibrating these things is what medical
physicists do for a living.

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Mon, 25 Oct 2004 08:50:07 GMT
 
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