UAE doctors issue health alert over osteoporosis in young people Jan 2014 UAE
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- She also cited a study by an Abu Dhabi hospital which polled 1,825 people in the UAE – with an average age of 42 – and found that about a quarter had osteopenia, the precursor to osteoporosis, and 2.4 per cent had osteoporosis.
- “I did a study in my clinic and found 75 per cent of osteoporosis patients had vitamin D deficiency,” he said.
- “Vitamin D deficiency is the most common cause of osteoporosis,” he said.
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