{"id":61,"date":"2026-02-17T16:56:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/dexa-guidelines\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T16:56:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:56:54","slug":"dexa-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/dexa-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"DEXA Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Practice Parameters and Indications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Summarizes clinical guidelines from ISCD, ACR, and endocrine societies covering screening indications, monitoring intervals, and use after fragility fractures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interpreting Scores and Risk Tools<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Explains T score and Z score definitions, diagnostic thresholds, and integration of BMD with fracture risk calculators such as FRAX to estimate absolute fracture probability.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translating Guidelines into Local Protocols<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Steps for adapting national guidance into local practice: define scanning sites, monitoring intervals, reporting templates, and referral thresholds for treatment or further imaging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practice Parameters and Indications Summarizes clinical guidelines from ISCD, ACR, and endocrine societies covering screening indications, monitoring intervals, and use after fragility fractures. Interpreting Scores and Risk Tools Explains T score and Z score definitions, diagnostic thresholds, and integration of BMD with fracture risk calculators such as FRAX to estimate absolute fracture probability. Translating Guidelines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dexa-exams","tag-dexa-bone-density-densitometry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtstudents.com\/radiologyhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}