Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance, today inaugurated the 8th International Conference on Vitamin D deficiency and its impact on human health, organized by the VBS Group of Health Care in Abu Dhabi, with the participation of 600 experts, doctors and specialists from inside and outside the UAE. , And stressed the doctors participating in the conference on the importance of intensifying awareness campaigns and education about the risk of vitamin D deficiency on the health of individuals, pointing out that the average proportion of people with vitamin deficiency in the country nearly 70% of the population of the state, D) and osteoporosis among Emirati women.
Five academic and health institutions are currently studying the relationship between vitamin D deficiency and osteoporosis among Emirati women, said assistant professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences at Zayed University. The research bodies are Zayed University and Khalifa University Cleveland Hospital, Mafraq Hospital and Health Point Hospital. Initial indications indicate a link between vitamin D deficiency and genetic cells in UAE women, which has a negative impact on osteoporosis.
She noted that preventive solutions for osteoporosis will be developed through the study, which is expected to be completed within 6 months from now, by helping to develop a treatment plan commensurate with the UAE genes in each case.
For his part, Cardiovascular Consultant at Cleveland Abu Dhabi Hospital, Dr. Samer Al-Lahham, said: "Vitamin D deficiency has gone beyond its effect on osteoporosis to heart disease and cancers of all kinds. Recent studies have shown a clear relationship between vitamin deficiency itself, heart disease and stroke Especially since the average percentage of people with vitamin deficiency in the country is close to 70% of the population of the state.
He pointed out that a recent American study has established a relationship between vitamin D deficiency and skin cancer, which requires the need for vitamin D tests for all age groups every six months. He pointed out that the solution is to follow a healthy and balanced lifestyle in which exposure to the sun and walking for no Less than 30 minutes a day, pointing out that the most serious dental stages due to lack of vitamin D are the stages of under 16 years and the stages of age over 60 years.
For his part, Dr Medhat Al-Sabahi, consultant psychiatrist at SKMC, pointed out that psychological diseases such as depression, anxiety and schizophrenia are one of the sources is the lack of vitamin D, which sometimes loses the person part of its concentration.
He pointed out that some medical schools are using vitamin D as part of a treatment for Alzheimer's disease caused by some brain imbalances. He pointed out the importance of an expanded Middle Eastern study on the relationship between vitamin D deficiency and mental illness in general.
On the increase in the rates of mental illness in general at present, Al-Sabahhi explained that the proliferation of correct and rapid diagnosis methods for psychiatric diseases and the acceptance of families in general to the existence of psychological treatment can be treated as membership helped to increase the rates of mental illness globally, but stressed that the release of all families Of the mental illness concerns caused by the film drama of false beliefs.