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Study suggest most women can wait 15 years between bone density tests

According to the osteoporosis is estimated to affect 200 million women worldwide. The cost to the United States health care system costs as much as $18 billion dollars each year.

Now a new study reports that bone loss and develop slowly in most women with normal bone tests at age 65 could wait fifteen years safely, before a second test is done.

According to  M.D., MPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, professor in the department of family medicine at UNC and lead author of the study, noted that current recommendations relies on bone mineral density readings in order to predict the rate at which bones will weaken with time. Dr. Gourlay stated "This is the first U.S. study to do it based on patients."

According to this new study researchers are questioning whether frequent bone density measurements make any sense for large percent of older women whose bone density is not near the danger zone on initial tests which are recommended at age 65.

The study had followed almost 5,000 women aged 67 and older for more than ten years. Upon entering