Certain air pollutants were associated with changes in metabolites among postmenopausal women in the US, potentially impacting bone health.

For a bone densitometry scan, you will lie on your back, on a padded table, in a comfortable position. The lumbar spine (lower back) and the hip are the skeletal sites usually examined by the scan.

A study of U.S. adults finds that excess central fat, measured by LAP, is linked to lower spinal bone density, only after reaching a certain tipping point, suggesting a new early warning sign for ...

Air pollution could lead to changes in certain metabolites that may be partially responsible for bone mineral density loss in ...

A vertebral compression fracture (VCF) is a break in an individual bone, or vertebra, of the spine that causes the vertebra to collapse. A lumbar VCF affects the lower spine. When a VCF occurs ...

HealthDay News — Exposure to air pollution may worsen bone loss in postmenopausal women, according to a study published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.

A once “fit and healthy” 25-year-old woman, whose lower back pain was initially misdiagnosed, died from bone cancer less than a year after a tumour was finally discovered in her pelvis.