Abstract
Editorial
Highlights
Osteoporosis, the most common of all metabolic bone disorders, is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “a skeletal disease, characterized by low bone mass and microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue, with a consequent increase in bone fragility and susceptibility to fracture” [1,2,3]
Despite the increased number of risk factors in spinal cord injury or lesion which make a disabled person at increased risk of low bone mass, guidelines are not available on BMD measurements and, as well, virtually no ranking system exists similar to the one already mentioned for postmenopausal women
It is wrong to categorize loss of bone after spinal cord injury or lesion as secondary immobilization osteoporosis because there is no comparison between these two conditions
Summary
Osteoporosis, the most common of all metabolic bone disorders, is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “a skeletal disease, characterized by low bone mass and microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue, with a consequent increase in bone fragility and susceptibility to fracture” [1,2,3]. The clinical usefulness of the DXA T-score in diagnosing low bone density in subjects with a lesion of spinal cord remains unclear.
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