More evidence to support a lower quantitative computed tomography (QCT) lumbar spine bone mineral density (BMD) cutpoint value for classifying osteoporosis among older East Asian women than for Caucasians

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China.
• ² Department of Radiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
• ³ Jockey Club Centre for Osteoporosis Care and Control, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China.
• ⁴ Department of Radiological Sciences, Oncology, and Pathology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
• ⁵ Department of Radiology, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Radiology, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei.
• ⁷ Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei.
• ⁸ School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK.