Results

This page explains the results that we have found from analysing the bone and information from the participants recruited at the University Hospital Southampton.

Recruitment to the OStEO study is still ongoing so bone from this study is still continuing to be analysed, click here to look at how many participants have been involved in the study to date. When testing is completed this page will be updated with the main findings of the study.

Click here to see the publications of this study to date. In summary:

• Techniques have been established for analysing the bone

• The reference point indentation tool has detected changes between different locations in the bone

• The reference point indentation tool has shown some ability to assess fracture risk, particularly when combined with existing bone mineral density and clinical risk factors