Osteopenia????

[Zen]

Cliff's notes on article #1-

"Ultimately it was just a matter of, 'Well ... it has to be drawn somewhere,' " Tosteson says. "And as I recall, it was very hot in the meeting room, and people were in shirt sleeves and, you know, it was time to kind of move on, if you will. And, I can't quite frankly remember who it was who stood up and drew the picture and said, 'Well, let's just do this.' "

So there in the hotel room someone literally stood up, drew a line through a graph depicting diminishing bone density and decreed: Every woman on one side of this line has a disease.

Then a new question arose: How do you categorize the women who are just on the other side of that line?"

[Dianyla]

So there in the hotel room someone literally stood up, drew a line through a graph depicting diminishing bone density and decreed: Every woman on one side of this line has a disease.

Then a new question arose: How do you categorize the women who are just on the other side of that line? [/COLOR]

The women just on this side of the line would have what's called a "subclinical" condition. Possibly/probably experiencing problems already but not meeting the official criteria for clinical diagnosis. A good doctor should be willing to treat subclinical patients.

[OakLeaf]

As long as everyone's agreed that "osteopenia" is a subclinical condition, which is what's being discussed. A good doctor also should not insist on treating asymptomatic patients with subclinical test results, and especially should not insist on powerful medications as a first line of treatment for those patients.

[Zen]

Sub-clinical only because they were hot and tired and wanted to go to Happy Hour at the hotel.
Free roast beef buffet that night.

[KnottedYet]

Sub-clinical only because they were hot and tired and wanted to go to Happy Hour at the hotel.
Free roast beef buffet that night.

Is subclinical like subversive?

"C'mere and check my bones, baby..."

[Dogmama]

My doc told me that bone loss accelerates the first three years of menopause. That is one reason why HRT is often prescribed.

[Ann G]

I was diagnosed with osteopenia about 5 years ago, and I've taken Evista for the last 4 years. After looking over the reviews at Amazon, I just ordered Better Bones, Better Body : Beyond Estrogen and Calcium by Susan Brown. Some time ago I read that cyclists and swimmers have the worst bone density. My personal belief is that it is because neither activity is a weight-bearing exercise, and you lose calcium during both through sweat. I buy a lot of packets of Propel with calcium, and use that for my water bottles, under the logic that if I'm sweating away some calcium, at least I can put some of it back.