70% of the country's population is deficient in vitamin D

Doctors of the 8th International Conference on Vitamin D Deficiency and its Impact on Human Health, inaugurated by the Minister of Tolerance, Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, stressed on Tuesday the importance of intensification awareness campaigns and education on the dangers of vitamin D deficiency for people's health, Noting that the average percentage of people suffering from vitamin deficiency accounts for nearly 70% of the population of the population. State, in addition to a relationship between vitamin D deficiency and osteoporosis in women in the UAE.

Dr. Fatima Al-Anuni, Assistant Professor of Health Sciences at the University of Zayed, said at the VBS Healthcare Group conference in Abu Dhabi, with the participation of 600 experts, doctors and specialists from the country and from abroad. Current research indicates that there is a link between vitamin D deficiency and the risk of vitamin D deficiency and osteoporosis in women with UAE. And Yeh geophysical cells in women in the UAE, which negatively affects osteoporosis.

She confirmed that preventive solutions against osteoporosis would be developed as part of a study, which should be completed within six months, to help develop a treatment plan corresponding to the UAE genes, according to of each case.

"The effect of vitamin D deficiency goes beyond osteoporosis on heart disease and cancers of all kinds," said Dr. Samer al-Lahham, a consultant at the Cleveland Clinic. "Some recent studies have shown a clear link between vitamin deficiency and heart disease and stroke, especially as the average proportion of those who have vitamin deficiency in the country nearly 70% of the population of the country. 39; state.

He pointed out that a recent US study had linked vitamin D deficiency to skin cancer, which required vitamin D testing for all age groups every six months, adding that the solution was to adopt a healthy and balanced lifestyle in which sun exposure and walking No less than 30 minutes a day, highlighting that the most serious stages of exposure to a deficiency vitamin D are the stages of under 16 years and stages of over 60 years.

Dr. Medhat Al-Sabahi, a psychiatrist at SKMC, said that psychiatric illnesses such as depression, anxiety and schizophrenia are one of the causes of vitamin D deficiency, which sometimes causes the person to lose of its concentration.

He added that some medical schools are using vitamin D in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease caused by some brain imbalances, highlighting the importance of an expanded study in the Middle East on the link between vitamin D deficiency and mental illnesses in general, so that treatment plans are based on them.

On the rise of mental illness in general, Al-Sabahi explained that the spread of correct and rapid diagnostic methods for psychiatric diseases, and families accept the presence of treatments, have helped to increase the detection rate and complementary, and called families to be free from psychological problems, Arab, because of its association with many false beliefs.

– 600 experts and doctors from home and abroad participate in the vitamin D conference

– Propagation of the correct diagnosis of mental illness and accept families for the presence of treatments, increase the detection rate.