Mount Sinai researchers also found those with the disease are 2.4 times more likely to suffer large vessel occlusion stroke.

NHS insitutions were already in need of imaging modalities and faculty prior to the pandemic, and now more than 600,000 people are waiting for deferred exams.

Including bone mineral density testing with patients' exams added no extra time and identified those at greater risk for fracture, Danish researchers explained recently.

The American College of Radiology came out in strong support of the changes, saying the broadened scope could save up to 60,000 lives annually.

Radiologists often mistake these bony lesions near the knee as more serious conditions, such as cancer, but researchers say such irregularities are typically benign.

Lead researcher Majid Fotuhi, MD, PhD, also said that completing a baseline MRI before these patients leave the hospital is “imperative" to their future treatment.

The approach was on-par with CT scan quality at detecting some of the most common findings associated with the disease, including lesions and ground-glass opacities, experts wrote in the Journal of MRI.

In a subset of children with positive imaging findings, however, bilateral and lower lobe-predominant ground-glass opacities are common.