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Osteoporosis: New biomedical engineering aspects

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There is tremendous interest of research which surrounds the concept of “osteoporosis,” as shown by the intense and growing research activity in the field. The urgency to advance knowledge in this area is motivated by the need to understand not only the causes, diagnosis and treatment but also need for early identification or detection of this silent disease. Despite the various researches work is going on, important issues remain unresolved. In this paper, Osteoporosis has also been discussed with respect to biological, engineering, biochemical and physical aspects. The diagnostic and therapeutic techniques have been described for osteoporosis, for better health care. The novelty of the review paper lies in clarifying several myths, explaining the disease in details with biomedical engineering aspects and focuses on the several detection techniques, providing a new direction for early diagnosis of this deadly disease and gives new directions for the POCT device for Osteoporosis.

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    Kanika Singh, Sung Hak Lee & Kyung Chun Kim

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Singh, K., Lee, S.H. & Kim, K.C. Osteoporosis: New biomedical engineering aspects. J Mech Sci Technol 20, 2265–2283 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02916343

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