Awareness session, walk on World Osteoporosis Day
- October 25, 2015, 4:13 pm
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QUETTA: An awareness session marking the World Osteoporosis Day is being held on October 29 at a local hotel here.
The experts would deliver lectures on the issues of Osteoporosis and provide necessary information in this regard.
The awareness session would be followed by a walk to be participated by the doctors, medical students and others.
It may be mentioned here that the World Osteoporosis Day is observed annually on 20 October. The day marks the launch of a year-long campaign dedicated to raising global awareness of the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis. Each year features a different campaign theme and message.
The theme for 2013, ‘postmenopausal women & their bone health,’ will highlight the reasons why women in particular are at greatest risk of osteoporosis and fractures. Additionally, the marketing of WOD2013 will include an emphasis on intergenerational bone health awareness, and secondary fracture prevention messages will be integrated into the 2013 theme when possible.
Organized by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF), World Osteoporosis Day involves activities by national osteoporosis societies in over 90 locations around the world.
Bon Secours Richmond Health System’s Healthy Bones Team, composed of medical experts from different disciplines, believes that it’s time to break the trend of osteoporosis and decrease bone fractures in adults of all ages. Some staggering statistics on osteoporosis (derived from Greek words meaning “porous boneâ€) add plenty of backbone to the team’s mission to prevent first-time and repeat fractures from occurring:
• About half of women over age 50, and about one in five men, will break a bone due to osteoporosis
• Men are twice as likely as women to die in the year following a hip fracture
• Osteoporosis causes an estimated two million broken bones each year
• About 54 million Americans age 50 and older are at risk of osteoporosis.
