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ArticleCalcified tissue international2026

Methodological Clarification and Analysis of Demographic and Anthropometric Determinants in the Calculation of REMS Bone Mineral Density.

Francesco Conversano, Paola Pisani, Sergio Casciaro

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Article in Calcified tissue international, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. In response to Bobelyak et al. (2025), Pocock and Chan (2025) and Chan et al. (2026).Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2026
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  2. A rebuttal letter: Author response to: OSIN-D-26-00862: Letter to the Editors: REMS is not just an age and weight calculator.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Francesco ConversanoInstitute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council, c/o Campus Ecotekne (Ed. A7), Via Prov.Le Lecce-Monteroni, 73100, Lecce, Italy.
Paola PisaniInstitute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council, c/o Campus Ecotekne (Ed. A7), Via Prov.Le Lecce-Monteroni, 73100, Lecce, Italy.
Sergio CasciaroInstitute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council, c/o Campus Ecotekne (Ed. A7), Via Prov.Le Lecce-Monteroni, 73100, Lecce, Italy. sergio.casciaro@cnr.it.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Radiofrequency echographic multi spectrometry (REMS) derives bone mineral density (BMD) using age- and anthropometry-dependent spectral models and conversion equations. The aim of this paper was to quantify the fraction of REMS BMD that can be explained by demographic and anthropometric variables. We analyzed 8000 proximal-femur and 8000 lumbar-spine REMS scans from Caucasian women, with independent development pools and fixed test sets of 4000 scans each and no significant development-versus-test differences in age, anthropometry, or REMS BMD. In 100 repeated runs, linear regression equations were fitted on random training subsets of 100-400 development scans. The primary anthropometric model equation included age and weight only. A further hypothetical maximum-explainability expanded model additionally included height, squared terms, and pairwise interactions, to explore the upper bound of explainability obtainable from anthropometric inputs alone. At train size 400, primary-model train/test R

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AnthropometryBone DensitySpectrum AnalysisAdultAgedFemaleHumansLumbar VertebraeMiddle AgedBone mineral densityFemoral neckLumbar spineRadiofrequency echographic multi spectrometryREMSTotal hip

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PMID42154039
PMCPMC13186884

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