TY - JOUR JF - ISMJ JO - Iran South Med J VL - 7 IS - 1 PY - 2004 Y1 - 2004/9/01 TI - The prevalence of osteoporosis in 20-69 years old women in Bushehr port TT - سنجش تراکم استخوانی در زنان 69-20 ساله بندر بوشهر N2 - Osteoporosis is an increasing important health problem in the world. The diagnosis of osteoporosis is made by determining that the patient has low bone density, usually by a Dual Energy X-ray Absortiometry (DEXA) measurement. In order to reveal the prevalence of osteoporosis in 20-69 years old women in Bushehr port using DEXA measurements in three parts of femoral sites and lumbar (L2-L4) area, 588 females from 13 clusters were randomly selected. The mean of bone mineral densities were 1.005 (0.171) and 0.794 (0.147) gram/cm2 in lumbar and femoral areas, respectively. The bone mineral densities decreased by increasing in age (p SP - 61 EP - 69 AU - Amiri, Mohammad AU - Larijani, Bagher AU - Nabipour, Iraj AU - Moosavi, Seyed Fazlollah AU - Amiri, Zahra AU - Soltanian, Alireza AU - Mohammadi, Mohammad Mehdi AU - Bahramian, Fatemeh AU - Emami, Seyed Reza AU - Asaadi, Kambiz AD - KW - osteoporosis KW - women KW - bone density KW - menopause UR - http://ismj.bpums.ac.ir/article-1-85-en.html ER -