Help me unscramble this bone density report ...

Help me unscramble this bone density report ...

My HMO makes all my test results available online, but the formatting
doesn't always survive the transfer.

I think the report was originally in the form of a table, but the online
version is one long line of text. The part I'm interested in says:

Spine LtHip LtForearm (total)(neck)(1/3)BMD(gm/cm2) 0.xxx 0.xxx 0.xxx T
Score n.n n.n n.n Z Score m.m m.m m.m

I think it's supposed to be in three columns of numbers, with three rows
of data.

I think the first column is "Spine (total)", the second "LtHip (neck)"
and the third "LtForearm (1/3)".

The first row is "BMD(gm/cm2)", the second row "T Score" and the third
row "Z score".

Is that right?

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Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN bert@iphouse . com

Re: Help me unscramble this bone density report ...


"Bert Hyman" <bert@iphouse . com > wrote in message news:Xns98B4B8F811B3CVeebleFetzer@216.250.184.7...
> My HMO makes all my test results available online, but the formatting
> doesn't always survive the transfer.
>
> I think the report was originally in the form of a table, but the online
> version is one long line of text. The part I'm interested in says:
>
> Spine LtHip LtForearm (total)(neck)(1/3)BMD(gm/cm2) 0.xxx 0.xxx 0.xxx T
> Score n.n n.n n.n Z Score m.m m.m m.m
>
> I think it's supposed to be in three columns of numbers, with three rows
> of data.
>
> I think the first column is "Spine (total)", the second "LtHip (neck)"
> and the third "LtForearm (1/3)".
>
> The first row is "BMD(gm/cm2)", the second row "T Score" and the third
> row "Z score".
>
> Is that right?
>

Probably.

Take a look at the pages referred to at
* courses.washington.edu/bonephys/opDEXA1.html
for more information.

* courses.washington.edu/bonephys/opbmd.html#tz
explains t and z scores.

Art

Re: Help me unscramble this bone density report ...

"Art S" <thedabbler02@earthlink . net > wrote in message
news:RTiph.8680$pQ3.8125@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink . net ...
>
> "Bert Hyman" <bert@iphouse . com > wrote in message
> news:Xns98B4B8F811B3CVeebleFetzer@216.250.184.7...
>> My HMO makes all my test results available online, but the formatting
>> doesn't always survive the transfer.
>>
>> I think the report was originally in the form of a table, but the online
>> version is one long line of text. The part I'm interested in says:
>>
>> Spine LtHip LtForearm (total)(neck)(1/3)BMD(gm/cm2) 0.xxx 0.xxx 0.xxx T
>> Score n.n n.n n.n Z Score m.m m.m m.m
>>
>> I think it's supposed to be in three columns of numbers, with three rows
>> of data.
>>
>> I think the first column is "Spine (total)", the second "LtHip (neck)"
>> and the third "LtForearm (1/3)".
>>
>> The first row is "BMD(gm/cm2)", the second row "T Score" and the third
>> row "Z score".
>>
>> Is that right?
>>
>
> Probably.
>
> Take a look at the pages referred to at
> * courses.washington.edu/bonephys/opDEXA1.html
> for more information.
>
> * courses.washington.edu/bonephys/opbmd.html#tz
> explains t and z scores.
>
> Art
>

You might also want to complain to the HMO that their online reports are
incomprehensible. It's also possible that this is a "new problem" that came
up because they tweaked some other section. Anyway, they need to know & to
know that you care.
bj