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Go for the Glory Quiz: Osteoporosis

By Nancy Lane MD | January 24, 2013

Dr. Lane is Endowed Professor of Medicine and Rheumatology and Director of the Musculoskeletal Diseases of Aging Research Group and the Academic Geriatric Resource Program at the UC Davis Health System in Sacramento.

1. Other than women with chronic use of glucocorticoids, for which of the following women would it be justified to measure bone mass, according to the 2011 USPSTF guidelines on bone density screening?

► A 52-year-old smoker with a BMI below 21 kg/m² who drinks alcohol(Drug information on alcohol) daily
► A 55-year-old nonsmoker with a parental history of hip fracture
► A 60-year-old smoker who drinks alcohol daily
► All of the above

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