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Dr. Muhammad Abdul Manan Khan, a consultant plastic surgeon and a fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Surgeons, explained that the group most threatened by Alzheimer''s disease in Saudi Arabia are those over the age of 80, pointing out that their percentage is 14% of the total elderly in Saudi Arabia.
During his presentation of a working paper presented at the Monaco Global Forum the day before yesterday, in which Monaco, France is witnessing the first Saudi anti-aging program in front of more than 7,000 specialists and participants in order to set up a global anti-aging system, he attributed the reasons to several factors, including the high average age of the individual and the lack of practice Exercising and increasing the intake of fatty and starchy foods, which is the prevailing lifestyle among many Saudi families.
He indicated that the Saudi anti-aging program includes establishing specialized and model centers, units and clinics in anti-aging medicine in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as the new and distinctive pattern of preventive health care in the new millennium.
He pointed out that the anti-aging medicine unit is based on early detection, prevention and treatment of diseases, and extending their healthy life "after God''s grace" through the use of advanced biomedical technologies that focus on early detection, prevention and treatment of diseases related to aging, including degenerative diseases. For aging.
Khan attributed the importance of the existence of this type of medical centers to combat aging, as Saudis feel old at an early age, and many of them stop having the desire to live at the age of sixty, and begin to count his remaining days and anticipate his death at any moment.
He pointed out that the Saudi anti-aging program was set up in a French partnership, as it includes detailed blood tests by sending some blood samples to Paris for a complete analysis in order to prevent diseases.
He emphasized that this program in anti-aging medicine is a true preventive program for investigating aging, and it includes hormone replacement therapy, which is suitable for every patient.
And he stressed that failure to combat aging will greatly increase the number of people with forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer''s disease, pointing out that there are about 44 million people in the world afflicted with this disease, saying: “The number is expected to more than triple to reach 135 million people by 2050 ».
