The United States will celebrate next November the month of diabetes with a program designed to disseminate the impact that this disease has on families and communities, the local Diabetes Association announced.
The program called “One day with diabetes” summons those who live with the condition to send a personal image that reflects the impact that evil has in its life to the page of the social network Facebook created by the association.
"We are excited to expand this Internet campaign and generate greater awareness about diabetes," he said in a statement, the executive director of the American Diabetes Association, Mary Merritt.
The photographs will be collected in a mosaic that will change throughout the month with the aim of awareness and "stop diabetes," he added.
In the United States Diabetes is the seventh cause of death, according to the National Diabetes Education (NDEP) program dependent on National Health Institutes.
In comparison of the Anglo -Saxon population, the risk of being diagnosed with diabetes is 66 percent higher among Hispanics and 77 percent higher among Afro -American.
The NDEP points out that the costs of medical care for the treatment of diabetes are around 174 billion dollars annually.
The figure for direct care, which includes hospitalizations, medical care and treatments, amounts to 116 billion dollars, while 58 billion correspond to indirect costs that include disabilities payments, lost time in work and premature death.
According to recent projections, in the United States one in three adults will suffer diabetes in 2050, and another 79 million Americans will run the risk of being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
The association indicated that the pilot's car Ryan Reed, of the Nascar category, will be covered with the photographs of the mosaic during the race scheduled for November 9 in Phoenix, Arizona.
Diabetes is a chronic disease that if it is not controlled has serious health complications such as cardiovascular diseases, strokes, amputations, blindness, renal failure and damage to the nervous system.
The association recalled that these complications are prevented or delayed with the proper control of blood glucose levels, blood pressure and cholesterol.
He also highlighted the importance of a healthy diet, leading an active life and quitting smoking.
He pointed out the directions www.facebook.com/americandiaSassasociation and on the social network Twitter www.twitter.com/amdiabetesn and made available the 11-800-diabetes line and the diabetesmosaic.org electronic site.