[isbwkisbakadqv]

That’s not accurate in the case of osteopenia. It’s defined by a T score. The quantile of the distribution of bone density measurements of young, healthy people that matched the bone density of this patient. Treatments for osteopenia are basically making sure you’re getting enough calcium, vitaD, and high impact exercise…if everyone did all those things (and they worked), the rate of osteopenia would drop to zero.

[BobbyTables2]

Yeah, and the T score doesn’t seem to have any medical basis.

Between 1.0 and 2.5 standard deviation is something like 15% of the population. “1.0” and “2.5” are ridiculously round number. What is the medical significance of such?

Sure, at some point, it will be correlated with fragile bones.

Adult male height is roughly 5’9” with standard deviation of 2.8”.

We DON’T say adult males under 5’2” are diagnosed as having medical disease.

[autoexec]

> We DON’T say adult males under 5’2” are diagnosed as having medical disease.

If males under 5’2” were having clear difficulty functioning and outcomes were measurably worse for most of them and large numbers of them were seeking treatment and we actually had safe and effective treatments which measurably decreased or eliminated the problems caused by the fact that they are under 5’2” for most of them, then I'd expect that we would consider it a medical disease/disorder. Why shouldn't we?

[DiabloD3]

We don't, but TikTok and other pro-Russian/pro-Chinese/anti-West propaganda platforms sure as hell do. They made up a word for it, "manlet".

People are, on average, fucking shitty people.