The Osentia Test
20000
Successful Tests and growing
Osentia requires a fingernail or toenail clipping to be sent for laboratory analysis.
Complete a test order form which includes questions about your health, wellbeing and lifestyle.
The test will accurately provide your personal risk of a fragility fracture. Results will be returned to you via email or post within seven days.
The test is based on measuring the proteins in the nail as a marker of the integrity of structural proteins in the body.
Osentia
The Osentia® Test
Osentia requires a fingernail or toenail clipping to be sent for laboratory analysis.
Complete a test order form which includes questions about your health, wellbeing and lifestyle.
The test will accurately provide your personal risk of a fragility fracture. Results will be returned to you via email or post within seven days.
The test is based on measuring the proteins in the nail as a marker of the integrity of structural proteins in the body.
20000
Successful Tests and growing
Osentia
The Osentia Test
Osentia requires a fingernail or toenail clipping to be sent for laboratory analysis.
Complete a test order form which includes questions about your health, wellbeing and lifestyle.
The test will accurately provide your personal risk of a fragility fracture. Results will be returned to you via email or post within seven days.
The test is based on measuring the proteins in the nail as a marker of the integrity of structural proteins in the body.
20000
Successful Tests and growing
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Every year, around 300,000 people will go to hospital because of a fragility fracture in the UK.
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People who have had one fracture are at greater risk of another - around 23% of secondary fractures occur within a year of the first fracture.
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One in five men over the age of 50 will suffer a fracture due to weakened bones.
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Bones are living tissue, which continue to remodel, reaching peak bone mass in a person in their late 20s.
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Every year, around 300,000 people will go to hospital because of a fragility fracture in the UK.
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People who have had one fracture are at greater risk of another - around 23% of secondary fractures occur within a year of the first fracture.
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One in five men over the age of 50 will suffer a fracture due to weakened bones.
20
Bones are living tissue, which continue to remodel, reaching peak bone mass in a person in their late 20s.
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Britain's first DIY test for the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis will be available from next week, enabling women and men to discover, without visiting a doctor, whether they are at risk of the debilitating condition.
Mail Online
Press coverageThe Osentia screening test assesses somebody’s risk of suffering fragility fractures - a common sign of osteoporosis.
Yorkshire Post
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