[Osteoporosis and densitometry screening: preliminary results]

We have examined the bone densitometry with osteoradiometer (ORM) of 355 patients who came to the "Centre for Prevention, Diagnosis and Therapy of Osteoporosis" at the Israelitic Hospital of Rome. 144 patients, 141 females and 3 males, will be studied in the future because their densitometric values are lower than the values considered normal for age and sex. We have valued anamnestic data (age, menopause, pregnancies, excessive use of alcohol and smoke, sedentary habits), medical data hyperthyroidism, OCB, chronic diarrhoea) and surgical data (ovariectomy, thyroidectomy, gastro-duodenal resection, mastectomy) to have the correct outline of the patient situation before further researches and beginning the best medical therapy. For the prevention and screening of people "at risk" densitometry is irreplaceable both pre-clinical osteopeny, and for checking the effects of the therapy.