percent of men
The rate of osteoporosis in women in the Kingdom increased to 25 percent, increasing with age to 60 percent for those over the age of sixty years and 70 percent for women over seventy. As for men, studies indicate that one third of them suffer from a decrease in bone density, while the percentage of fragility is 20 percent. The orthopedic consultant at Dammam Medical Complex, Dr. Zakaria Al-Meir confirmed to Al-Youm that the cases in the eastern region reached 95 percent, and men constitute 20 percent of those over eighty while 75 percent of Eastern women who exceeded fifty years suffer from fragility, in addition to injury 5 percent under the age of fifty for other pathological reasons or exposure to accidents, and the therapeutic cost of fractures caused by osteoporosis is estimated at 48 million riyals. "Dr. Al-Mir added: There are factors for this The disease in the Kingdom is related to the diet, and it was observed that the intake of calcium-containing compounds decreased and vitamin D level decreased with less exposure to sunlight. A number of orthopedists in the Kingdom revealed more than 200 million people around the world with osteoporosis, and they expected increased rates of infection for women Fractures of the pelvis to 240 percent and 310 percent for men by 2050 CE, bringing the number to 6 million fractures as people age.
