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Acronym	Definition
QUS	Quantitative Ultrasound (bone density test using sound waves)
QUS	Survivors or Wreckage Found (radiotelegraphy)
QUS	Quantitative Ultrasound Sonometry

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Dr Wright said it was vital this wish-list was translated into real changes so that QUs became cheaper and less bureaucratic.

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The Welsh Government subsequently agreed to review QUs, but not until after the 2018 show season.

Will anyone go to agri shows this summer? FUW says fewer than 100 farms have quarantines

Additional clinical measures obtained at the data collection center included BMI, level of physical activity, and QUS measurements.

A Cross-Sectional Study of the Association between Autoantibodies and Qualitative Ultrasound Index of Bone in an Elderly Sample without Clinical Autoimmune Disease

The mean and standard deviations were calculated for the subject characteristics, body composition and QUS measurements.

Calcaneus quantitative ultrasound and Body Composition in Preschool Children: Physical Activity Consideration/ Ultrasonido Cuantitativo de Calcaneo y Composicion Corporal en Ninos Preescolares: Consideracion de Actividad Fisica

We included HIV-infected patients attending our HIV-outpatient Clinic during 2014 who underwent BMD measurement (at lumbar spine and hip) and vertebral fractures assessment at the Endocrinology outpatients Clinic; and QUS, in our Clinic.

Comparison between the gold standard DXA with calcaneal quantitative ultrasound based-strategy (QUS) to detect osteoporosis in an HIV infected cohort

From the resulting population of N = 6753, all subjects with missing data in QUS, IMT, plaque, or confounder variables were excluded as well as subjects with extremely high values in the QUS variables, pregnant women, subjects with estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) below 30ml/min/1.73[m.sup.2] or missing eGFR, and those who reported with intake of bisphosphonates, selective estrogen receptor modulators, parathyroid hormone, steroids, or strontium ranelate (for details, see Supplemental Figure 1 available online at https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/ 3946569).

The Association between Bone Quality and Atherosclerosis: Results from Two Large Population-Based Studies

This study was aimed at assessing the correlates of calcaneal QUS parameters in subjects with T1DM and T2DM, encompassing various degrees of micro- and macrovascular complications and a wide-range of peripheral nerve function.

Correlates of Calcaneal Quantitative Ultrasound Parameters in Patients with Diabetes: The Study on the Assessment of Determinants of Muscle and Bone Strength Abnormalities in Diabetes

Methods: QUS (in the calcaneus region) and DXA (the spine and the neck of femur respectively) measurements were performed in 101 females.

Measurements of bone mineral density and stiffness index in young Saudi females

All subjects provided their medical history of chronic disease and underwent a quantitative ultrasound (QUS) of their right calcaneal bone using the Achilles InSight (GE Healthcare, Madison, WI, US).

The prevalence and the determinants of musculoskeletal diseases in Emiratis attending primary health care clinics in Dubai

In random subsets of participants, bone-specific alkaline phosphatase (BAP) (N=100) and quantitative ultrasound (QUS) (N=290) were also measured.

Calcium may help prevent bone loss associated with pregnancy

Anamnesis, a detailed clinical examination with the distinction between high and low risk factors as well as the quantitative ultrasound (QUS) make it possible to recognize the persons at an increased risk for osteoporosis and to refer them to the bone mineral density measurement (BMD) with double exposition with x-rays by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) method.

Comparison of T-score values obtained by ultrasound osteodensitometry of calcaneus and by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry scan/Komparacija vrednosti T-skora dobijenih ultrazvucnom osteodenzitometrijom petne kosti i metodom dvostruke apsorpciometrije X-zraka

Considering the quadrat sampling method (QuS), we distributed the quadrats arbitrarily, always respecting the limits defined for each base, independently of the substrates.

Effectiveness of quadrat sampling on terrestrial cave fauna survey a case study in a Neotropical cave/A eficacia do metodo de amostragem por quadrados em levantamentos da fauna terrestre cavernicola--um estudo de caso em uma caverna Neotropical