Osteoporosis threatens Jeddah males and half of white women, as indicated by a medical study ... A medical study confirmed that males in Jeddah are more affected than females with osteoporosis, and that half of white women are exposed to the same disease faster. And she indicated that 17% of the study subjects had spinal cord injuries, and that the disease prevalence rate increases with age.
The study conducted by Dr. Rajaa Muhammad Al-Raddadi, Head of Studies and Research Department in Jeddah Health, showed that 80% of the femoral neck fracture sufferers are unable to walk after six months and 20% within a year will experience a broken neck.
She indicated that the osteoporosis disease spread 14.5% of the study subjects (19.4 males and 12.4% of females).
The increase in the prevalence of the disease in males compared to females was significant. The prevalence rate was 17.5% in the spine and 3.7% in the hip, while in females it was 12.1% in the spine and 2% in the hip.
She pointed out that there is an increase in the prevalence rate with age, and the prevalence of the disease increased from 8.2% in males and 2.1 in females in the age period (30-39) years to 28.6% for men and 43.8% in women. In the age group (70-80) years.
Osteoporosis ranks second in the world in the list of health problems, affecting about 200 million women around the world.
It contributes annually to 1.5 million men and women fractures of the bones, including 300,000 fractures in the pelvis.
And Dr. Belhamer said that the incidence of a fracture in the neck of the femur due to osteoporosis in women exceeds the total incidence of breast, cervical and ovarian cancer combined.
