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  • So because some piece of new technology is giving you don't understand, you have decided to worry about it and try and find out what you8 are worrying about. May I suggest you have got it the wrong way round? If and when you find out what Bone Mass is, and whether it matters, and whether bathroom scales can really give you an accurate measurement of it, you worry about something else. You know, I presume, about weight - that is why you have scales, If your weight is not within 10% of optimal for your height/age/shape, I suggest you worry about that. If and when your doctor or other medical advisor talks about Bone Mass, /then/ you can start worrying about it.
  • Perfectly good question, I have the same curiosity and want to know more about "BM" as reported by the new electronic scales. My own electronic scale (WW67T by Conair) reports "BM" (Bone Mass?) but gives no hint about the target range or the basis of the number. Osteoporosis-related bone mass and bone density indicators show up on the web as "t" or "z" scores, the deviation from norm - number of sigmas or std.dev.'s away from some reference point. This scale gives very reproducible results for all other metrics on the menu, I would like to know more about the "BM" number.
  • i need the same answer and i totally agree with the above because we want to know to aid prevention of decreasing bone mass not to find a cure or to worry about something we dont know we have!

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