20 19 How to Prevent Osteoporosis on World Osteoporosis Day

Every year, 65438+1October 20th is World Osteoporosis Day. Director Li of the Second Ward of Rehabilitation Department of Jingyang District Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Deyang City gave a health knowledge lecture on "How to prevent and treat osteoporosis" at Dongshan Community Day Care Center.

Director Li explained the definition, epidemiology, causes, symptoms and signs, auxiliary examination, prevention and treatment and misunderstanding of osteoporosis in a simple way. Through popular words and simple metaphors, non-professional elderly people fully understand the harm of osteoporosis, deeply understand the importance of osteoporosis prevention and treatment, and correct the misunderstanding of osteoporosis.

More than 50 old people attended the lecture. During the whole lecture, everyone listened carefully and many people took notes. After the lecture, everyone asked Director Li what they didn't understand and the problems they encountered in daily life, and they were reluctant to disperse for a long time, hoping to organize more such health knowledge lectures.

World Osteoporosis Day was first founded by the British National Osteoporosis Society on 1996, and was initiated and supported by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) on 1997. At that time, it was scheduled to be World Osteoporosis Day on June 24th every year. Its purpose is to improve the government and the public's attention and attention to the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, and to carry out universal education and information dissemination. With the increase of participating countries and the annual growth of organizational activities, the influence of World Osteoporosis Day is expanding day by day. The World Health Organization (WHO) began to participate in 1998 and played a very important role as a co-organizer. At the same time, it changed World Osteoporosis Day to1October 20th 10 every year.

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Since 1998, every year, the global activities of "Osteoporosis Day" will release a theme to achieve global unified action and achieve better results. The theme of World Osteoporosis Day (1998) is "government behavior", which aims to publicize and arouse the government's attention and support for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. The theme of 20 17 is "Love your bones and protect your future".

Osteoporosis is an epidemic disease that affects the quality of life of middle-aged and elderly people, and it has become the main disease that puzzles the elderly population, which can cause backache, short stature, hunchback and even fractures. Its incidence rate is second only to diabetes and Alzheimer's Harmo's disease, ranking the third among senile diseases. The biggest harm of osteoporosis is that it is easy to cause fractures. The incidence of osteoporosis-related fractures in the elderly is as high as 30%, and many patients are disabled or even die. In recent years, more and more young women in cities are suffering from osteoporosis. The main reasons are losing weight, being afraid of the sun and not exercising.

About 7% of the population in China suffers from osteoporosis, which is the country with the largest number of osteoporosis patients in the world, with about 90 million patients, and another 2,654,380,000 people have low bone mass and are at risk of osteoporosis. According to the data provided by IOF's member units in China, the incidence of fractures caused by osteoporosis in China is over 9% every year, and there is an increasing trend every year. In China, the prevalence of osteoporosis in women over 50 years old is 20.7%, and that in men is 14.4%. The prevalence of osteoporosis over 60 years old has increased significantly, especially in women. 70%-80% of middle-aged and elderly fractures are caused by osteoporosis, among which about 18 10000 new vertebral fractures and 230000 hip fractures occur every year. However, the diagnosis rate and treatment rate of osteoporosis are relatively low, and less than14 people have received effective anti-osteoporosis drugs.