The European Association for the Study of Diabetes has opened the doors of its 49 Annual Congress held at the Gran Via de Fira in Barcelona in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, with the assistance of 20,000 experts from 120 countries that will present the mainNews in the treatment and prevention of diabetes.
The European Diabetes Congress will be held until Friday, September 27 and includes the presentation of 400 oral communications and a thousand posters on advances in individualized therapies, in bariatric surgery, in the use of insulin and in other aspects that affect theDiabetes, a disease that affects almost 400 million people worldwide and that is among the ten main causes of death.
During the first day of the Congress, different studies have been presented, such as one of Professor Sarah Wild, from the University of Edinburgh, which reveals that men with type 1 diabetes have a better control of blood sugar levels than women.
The study has analyzed the data of patients with type 1 diabetes of a dozen countries from the HBA1C test (glucosylated hemoglobin), which indicates the average level of blood sugar.
According to this analysis, 64% of boys under 15 had a level of HBA1C greater than 7.5%-which is considered a poor blood sugar control-, without significant differences with the results ofThe girls.
On the other hand, between 15 and 29 years 66% of men had bad blood sugar control compared to 74% of women;and in those over 30 the percentage of women with levels greater than 7.5% of HBA1C was 6% greater than that of men.
The head of the study, Sarah Wild, states that, based on these data, it is concluded that "men have a better blood sugar control than women, and now you have to look for explanations of why."