The Origin of Osteoporosis Day The World Osteoporosis Day was first founded by the British National Osteoporosis Society on 1996. From 65438 to 0997, the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) initiated and supported it, and it is scheduled to be World Osteoporosis Day on June 24th every year. With the steady growth of activities year by year, the influence is constantly expanding. From 1998, the World Health Organization (WHO) began to participate, and finally1October 20th 10 was designated as World Osteoporosis Day every year.
Osteoporosis is the most common bone disease in middle-aged and elderly people. According to relevant data, there is an osteoporotic fracture every 3 seconds in the world. According to the survey of the International Osteoporosis Foundation, there are13 women over 50 years old and15 men over 50 years old who will have osteoporotic fractures. It is estimated that by 2050, nearly 50 million people in China will have fractures due to osteoporosis.
654381October 20th is World Osteoporosis Day. Osteoporosis is listed as one of the four major diseases that endanger human health by the World Health Organization. Because osteoporosis has no obvious symptoms like hypertension, hyperlipidemia and hyperglycemia, its harm to the body is silent and subtle, so it is called "silent killer".
Coping with osteoporosis is not only a problem that middle-aged and elderly people need to face directly, but should run through people's life, because this "silent killer" may "make moves" at different ages and is better at "deep lurking". By the time you find out, it will be too late.
Statistics show that the incidence of osteoporosis in people over 60 years old is 56%, of which the incidence of osteoporosis in women is as high as 60% to 70%, and more than 90% of osteoporosis patients will face the threat of brittle fractures. In the past few days, our reporter visited many experts and learned that once osteoporosis has serious upper body problems, it is not difficult to prevent it.
What is the purpose of Osteoporosis Day?
The purpose of Osteoporosis Day is to educate and send information to those governments and people who do not pay attention to the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. With the deepening of China's aging, the elderly population is increasing every year. Osteoporosis has become an important health problem.
What are the symptoms of osteoporosis?
Pain is the most common symptom, and low back pain is the most common, accounting for 70%-80% of patients with pain. And the pain will spread along the spine to the ribs and even to the chest and abdomen. Usually the pain is aggravated after bending over, coughing and fatigue, and relieved after rest. There are also cases of short height and hunchback, which are mainly seen in middle-aged and elderly women. This symptom usually appears after low back pain.