%0 Journal Article
%T Moving toward a prevention strategy for osteoporosis by giving a voice to a silent disease
%A Carrie A. Karvonen-Gutierrez
%A Erin M. R. Bigelow
%A Karl J. Jepsen
%A Melissa Ramcharan
%A Stephen H. Schlecht
%J Archive of "Women's Midlife Health".
%D 2016
%R 10.1186/s40695-016-0016-0
%X Sagittal sections derived from 3-dimensional nanoComputed Tomography images (nanotom-s; phoenix|x-ray, GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies, GmbH; Wunstorf, Germany) of cadaveric proximal femurs for two women, one 24 years old and the other 54 years old, convey how bone loss occurs non-uniformly with aging and predominantly in the region used to measure aBMD with DEXA. Maintaining bone strength is analogous to maintaining a bridge, where all critical structural components must be recognized and targeted to keep the structure intact and functioning to prevent a catastrophic failure even
%K Menopausal transition
%K Bone
%K Strength
%K BMD
%K Osteoporosis
%K Biomechanics
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5035036/