Osteoporosis is a condition in which the bones become brittle due to loss of minerals. To diagnose osteoporosis, an elaborate apparatus measures bone mineral density (BMD). BMD is usually reported in standardized form. The standardization is based on a population of healthy young adults. The World Health Organization (WHO) criterion for osteoporosis is a BMD 0.5 standard deviations below the mean for young adults. BMD measurements in a population of people similar in age and sex roughly follow a Normal distribution.
(a) What percent of healthy young adults have osteoporosis by the WHO criterion? (Round your answer to one decimal place %)
(b ) Woman aged 70 to 79 are of course not young adults. The mean BMD in this age group is about -2 on the standard scale for young adults. Suppose that the standard deviation is the same as for young adults. What percent of this older population has osteoporosis?
a. Answer: 0.62% of healthy young adults have osteoporosis according to the results by the WHO criterion. (This can be found by looking at the area below a standard z-score of -2.5 which in this case = 0.0062)
b. Answer: 30.85% of the older population has osteoporosis. (This can be found by looking at the area below a standard z-score of -.05 which in this case = 0.3085)
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