Bone Health

Bone turnover and the hormones and minerals that regulate it.

3 conditions1 guide11 markers

Conditions

ConditionsVitamin D deficiency: signs, causes, and why it's usually silentA 25-hydroxyvitamin D below 20 ng/mL is common and usually causes no symptoms at all. Here is what the number means, what raises your risk, and who is worth testing.Read ConditionsHyperparathyroidism: what a high calcium and high PTH mean togetherHigh calcium is common and usually mild. What tells you the parathyroid glands are behind it is a PTH that stayed up when it should have switched off.Read ConditionsOsteoporosis: what your lab results can and cannot tell youBones lose density and turn fragile with no symptoms until one breaks. A DEXA scan diagnoses it; the calcium, vitamin D, and PTH on your report are there to find the cause.Read

Guides

LearnBone tests explained: a DEXA scan measures how much bone, blood tests explain whyA bone density (DEXA) scan is the test that diagnoses osteoporosis and the only one that gives you a T-score. Calcium, vitamin D, PTH, and turnover markers explain why bone is being lost and track treatment, but they never produce a T-score.Read

Markers

25-Hydroxyvitamin25-Hydroxyvitamin D BSAPBone-Specific Alkaline Phosphatase CTXC-Telopeptide of Type I Collagen CCFACalcium, Corrected for Albumin CICalcium, Ionized CSCalcium, Total MSMagnesium, Serum OSTOsteocalcin PTHParathyroid Hormone PPSPhosphorus/Phosphate, Serum P1NPProcollagen Type I N-Terminal Propeptide

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