The increase in child diabetes reaches newborns
experts from all over the country will analyze in Murcia why this incidence in children while patients put their hopes in advances with stem cells
Bad lifestyle habits, sedentary lifestyle, fast food abuse and with it the increase in obesity derives in diabetes, hypertension and cholesterol.The first one, diabetes, is becoming numerous experts in the '21st century epidemic' with a growing incidence, already affecting 11% of the population of which 10% are children and many babies.
The increase in cases in young people is what most worries doctors, since type 2 diabetes has been fired, which is the one that until now occurred in overweight people.This was explained yesterday to the opinion the manager of the Murcian Association for Diabetes Care (Adirmu), Silvia Serrano, after the presentation of the XII Diabetes Week that will start on Monday with various activities.
Serrano stressed that in young people diabetes appears at earlier ages, in young children and even babies.Therefore, from Adirmu they demand an improvement in assistance, since "the waiting lists to serve young people are huge and if you do not go through the emergency room they can prolong for six or nine months."In this sense, from the association they ask that more endocrine be hired at the Virgen de la Arrixaca hospital, "there are currently only two and one more reinforcement in specific situations," said Adirmu manager.
As for children, he recalled the request that schools have health professionals who can serve students with diabetes when they have an episode of hyperglycemia and help them punctuate insulin.An initiative for which they fight from the School Health Platform.
Research
The conferences that Admi have organized on the occasion of the Diabetes Week will focus on the field of research and, as they indicate, "we bet to achieve the healing of the disease from great researchers in cell therapy and we trust thatInsulin -producing cells are obtained from embryonic stem cells ", something that Dr. Enrique Roche, Bioengineer Cell and Professor of the Miguel Hernández University of Alicante is working.
Serrano stressed that "we want to be able to park the disease and not spend a lifetime treating it, but for this we have to bet on research and achieve a cure."He also commented that during the conferences, aspects such as umbilical cordThe patient has hooked a meter through an intra -abdominal catheter that marks at all times the glucose level warning of the ups and downs.
