No calcium before bone density test?
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> 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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