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Middle East and North Africa consensus on osteoporosis.

2007; National Institutes of Health; Volume: 7; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

Ghassan Maalouf, Marie‐Hélène Gannagé‐Yared, J Ezzedine, Bagher Larijani, Satriani Badawi, A Rached, L Zakroui, Basel Masri, Edward E. Azar, Elias S. Saba, R Nammari, Gemma Adib, Haifa A. Samra, Ziad S. Al‐Rawi, Süleyman Salman, K El Muntasser, R Tarseen, W El Kharousi, M Al-Lamki, Abdulrahman Alothman, N Almarzook, M El Dessouki, Riad Sulaimani, Jamal Al Saleh, Abdul Rahim Al Suhaili, Aliya Khan, Pierre Delmas, Ego Seeman,

Biomarkers in Disease Mechanisms

With the increasing life expectancy, osteoporosis is becoming a major worldwide health problem. The magnitude of the disease may become larger in developing countries, more particularly in the Middle East region where the prevalence of low bone mass is higher than in western countries. Although several local organizations and countries have developed guidelines for osteoporosis, no previous regional guidelines have been developed encompassing all Middle-Eastern and North African countries. The present document reviews all the regional published data on bone mineral density, risk factors, fracture prevalence and vitamin D status. It also gives simple recommendations applicable to all these countries. This document was endorsed by leading members of all the different regional countries including, Iran, Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.