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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Bone. 2008 Feb 20;42(6):1014–1020. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2008.02.001

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The predicted reduction in strength caused by a reduction in bone mineral content or bone mineral density (as would be measured by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry) is shown 1) a hypothetical case where changes in bone mineral content are caused entirely by changes in volume fraction (dark blue region) and 2) a hypothetical case where changes in bone mineral content are caused entirely by reductions in tissue degree of mineralization (light orange region). The overlapping regions are based on the 95% confidence interval of the regression model reported by Hernandez and colleagues[41].