A Patient Has Been Diagnosed with Osteoporosis and Asks the Nurse,"What

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Multiple Choice

A patient has been diagnosed with osteoporosis and asks the nurse,"What is osteoporosis?" The nurse knows that osteoporosis can be defined as:

• A)the loss of bone matrix.
• B)the loss of bone mass.
• C)new,weaker bone growth.
• D)increased phagocytic activity.

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Definitions:

Frequency Distribution

A summary of how often different values or ranges of values occur in a dataset.

Cumulative Percent

The percentage that represents the sum of its own and all previous categories in a frequency distribution.

Arrests

A term signifying the act of detaining someone legally as a suspect in a criminal activity.

Cumulative Percent

A measure that calculates the percentage total up to a specific point in a series of data, showing the accumulation of a quantity over time.