levothyroxine use appears to be associated with greater bone loss in older adults," said Shadpour Demehri, M.D., co-senior author and professor of radiology at Johns Hopkins. Jennifer Mammen ...

Peripheral skeleton (wrist and heel): DXA, QCT, single-energy x-ray absorptiometry, radiographic absorptiometry ... there are many contributors to bone strength apart from BMD (see next section).