Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynecology, King Fahd Hospital of the University, Imam AbdulRahman Bin Faisal University, AlKhobar, Saudi Arabia.
Ann Afr Med. 2022 Jan-Mar;21(1):54-57. doi: 10.4103/aam.aam_79_20.
The objective of this analysis is to report from a teaching hospital in eastern Saudi Arabia hospital based prevalence of osteopenia and osteoporosis.
This is a retrospective study of all patients who underwent dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scan between January 1, and December 31, 2018, at King Fahd Hospital of the University at Alkhobar, Saudi Arabia. Demographic data of patients, which included age, sex, diabetes mellitus status based on fasting blood sugar, hemoglobin A1C, Vitamin D level, parathormone level, and T score of the neck of femur and lumbar spine was extracted from the Quadrumed patient care system. The data was entered into database and analyzed.
Three hundred and one patients had a DXA scan for the year 2018, a jump of 27.2% of requests to diagnose osteoporosis. There were 55 (18.27%) were male and rest females (246). The average age for males was 65.2 ± 10.5 and females 62.9 ± 9.4 years. Using T score of the lumbar spine, 63.6% were osteoporotic in males and 52.8% in females.
The hospital-based study shows that the prevalence of osteoporosis has significantly increased in men to 63.6%, while in postmenopausal women to 58.4%, this is high compared to the earlier reports.
本分析旨在报告沙特阿拉伯东部一家教学医院的基于医院的骨量减少症和骨质疏松症患病率。
这是一项回顾性研究,纳入了 2018 年 1 月 1 日至 12 月 31 日期间在沙特阿拉伯阿卜杜拉国王大学法赫德国王医院接受双能 X 线吸收法(DXA)扫描的所有患者。从 Quadrumed 患者护理系统中提取患者的人口统计学数据,包括年龄、性别、基于空腹血糖的糖尿病状态、糖化血红蛋白、维生素 D 水平、甲状旁腺激素水平以及股骨颈和腰椎的 T 评分。将数据输入数据库并进行分析。
2018 年有 310 例患者进行了 DXA 扫描,诊断骨质疏松症的请求增加了 27.2%。其中 55 例(18.27%)为男性,其余为女性(246 例)。男性的平均年龄为 65.2±10.5 岁,女性为 62.9±9.4 岁。使用腰椎 T 评分,男性骨质疏松症患病率为 63.6%,女性为 52.8%。
这项基于医院的研究表明,男性骨质疏松症的患病率显著增加至 63.6%,而绝经后女性的患病率增加至 58.4%,这与早期报告相比较高。