World Osteoporosis Day 1996 was first organized by the British National Osteoporosis Society. Initiated and supported by the International Osteoporosis Foundation 65438-0997, June 24th of each year is designated as World Osteoporosis Day, with the purpose of popularizing education and information transmission to those governments and people who do not pay enough attention to the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, and providing a very important focus information.

With the steady growth of participation in activities organized by the United Nations, the influence of World Osteoporosis Day is expanding day by day. 1998, the world health organization began to participate and played a very important role as a co-organizer, and designated World Osteoporosis Day as the annual1October 20th 10 Osteoporosis Day.

There are many risk factors leading to primary osteoporosis, such as heredity, aging, low peak bone mass, sex hormone deficiency, calcium and vitamin D deficiency, and insufficient exercise. In addition, bad living habits, such as smoking, drinking, excessive intake of caffeine and so on. It will also aggravate the occurrence of primary osteoporosis.

Compared with no treatment, it is not too late to start treating osteoporosis at any stage, but early diagnosis and treatment will greatly benefit. High-risk groups should go to regular hospitals for osteoporosis detection, diagnosis and treatment as soon as possible.

Preventive publicity

Osteoporosis is a common and frequently-occurring disease among middle-aged and elderly people, ranking first among the five major diseases among them. Seriously endangering the health of the elderly has become one of the serious social problems that are widely concerned in the world today.

It is necessary to further strengthen the publicity and education of osteoporosis, so that the whole society can realize the universality and harm of osteoporosis, so that the majority of osteoporosis patients can be found and diagnosed early, so as to get timely treatment and minimize the harm of osteoporosis to middle-aged and elderly people.

The above content comes from Baidu Encyclopedia-World Osteoporosis Day.