Terms
Results are often reported in 3 terms:
- Measured areal density in g cm−2
- z-score, the number of standard deviations above or below the mean for the patient's age, sex and ethnicity
- t-score, the number of standard deviations above or below the mean for a healthy 30 year old adult of the same sex and ethnicity as the patient
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