The European Parliament has defended in a resolution approved in plenary session that the investigation of diabetes with European funds is financed and that collaboration between countries in this area is consolidated.Likewise, the resolution emphasizes that some countries still do not have national plans on this disease.It is estimated that in the EU Diabetes consumes 10% of European health expenditure.
The Eurocamara has requested in plenary session the design of a European strategy to combat diabetes.The strategy should anticipate, according to the Eurodiputados, the improvement of research and an increase in prevention as well as the early diagnosis of this disease.In 2010, the Commission has already started a campaign to prevent diabetes with a healthier diet.In the EU, there are 32 million affected by this disease and it is estimated that another 32 million people suffer from glucose intolerance, a disorder that has many possibilities to end up deriving in diabetes.Approximately half of the patients have not been diagnosed so the MEPs ask that early diagnosis be one of the priorities of health authorities.
The most common type of diabetes is type 2, which is a preventable disease.The Eurodiputados indicate that the EU and the Member States should use environmental, food and consumption policies to combat risk factors to contract this disease, such as obesity.They also consider that EU countries should ensure that minors receive information on the benefits of healthy eating and physical exercise in schools.
As for Spain in particular, according to a study prepared by the Spanish government together with the Spanish Diabetes Society, last year 7.8% of Spaniards of legal age remained medical treatment against type 2 diabetes, to whichYou have to add another 6% that suffered the disease without knowing it.This raises the number of diabetics up to 13.8 % of the country's population, approximately four points above the community average.
