The International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) recommends BMD testing in premenopausal women with a history of fragility fracture(s) and in those with a known secondary cause of osteoporosis or bone loss.
However, routine bone density screening in healthy premenopausal women is not recommended.
This is because there are no prospective studies relating BMD by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) to incident fractures in premenopausal women.