About 130 medical and nursing professionals in the Valencian Community have met in Alzira with the aim of updating knowledge and sharing the latest news in the approach of diabetes mellitus, a disease that, according to estimates, affects14 % of the population.
It has been in the diabetes days of the Department of Health of La Ribera, which have celebrated their sixth edition, where the department's health deputy director, Antonio Fuertes, said that "there is no effective treatment of diabetes without education and training of theirbearer, which is in whom it rests, to a large extent, the work of maintaining normal blood glucose figures. "
In this sense, "it is the primary health care staff, which is the level of health in which more than 85% of people with diabetes mellitus are attended, which must be able to transmit to the patient motivation and skillsPractices to face the demands of daily self -care, "said strong.
With regard to the complications that diabetes can entail, the days have focused on diabetic nephropathy, "the main cause of renal failure in the western world and one of the most important complications of long evolution diabetes."
As has been revealed in this event, diabetes is a frequent disease in the elderly, since its prevalence increases ostensibly with age.Thus, 44 % of diabetics are over 65."In fact, it is the fifth most frequent disease in old age, after osteoarthritis, arterial hypertension, cataracts and cardiovascular diseases," he said strong.