Moving toward a prevention strategy for osteoporosis by giving a voice to a silent disease

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