The health affairs in Riyadh in cooperation with
osteoporosis program at the Ministry of Health has organized a festival on
awareness (the definition of osteoporosis and ways to prevent it and deal with
it?). The
meeting of this global day comes in line
with the consistent policies of the Ministry of Health with the World Health
Organization, which has made October 20th of each year to be the International
Day of osteoporosis in order to encourage early detection and reduce
complications
Specialists showed the causes of the disease and its
symptoms and procedures to deal with suspected cases and when to transfer the
patient to detect fragility and to complementary therapies to prevent it and how
to protect patients from fractures. the meeting ensured the importance of awareness against fragility of the bones in the Kingdom comes with the increasing number of cases
that suffer from osteoporosis, as the infection rates between women older than 50
years are 35%, and 60% of women older than 60 years suffer from
deficiency in bone density.
Dr. Arwa Hamid the specialist in this feild presented a lecture on how fragility can be avoided by calcium-rich nutrition and exposure to the sun. The ratio of women is higher because of menopause
as estrogen factors increase the injury for women as well
as other factors such as genetics, then she showed a modern device for early
detection of osteoporosis that will be available soon in health care
centers around the kingdom to activate the campaign for early detection.