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The Valencian Association of Diabetes will begin this Wednesday, May 14, in Benetusser a Diabetes Dissemination Program, ´3 days with your diabetes' that will travel 11 locations in Valencia with the aim of preventing and detecting type II diabetes, as well as"Promote and facilitate the quality of life of people with type II diabetes or with the possibility of suffering from it," said entity's sources in a statement.
The initiative, which is aimed at priority to people over 50 and fundamentally women, is concentrated in three days, the first to perform free glucose tests and a risk of diabetes;The second day will focus on the promotion and adoption of healthy lifestyle habits such as physical exercise or appropriate alitation;and the third day will affect diabetological education, and how to control and prevent disease.
The program is an initiative of the associations of people with diabetes of Valencia and Sagunto, and has the support of the social work La Caixa and the different municipalities of the localities where the days will be held, which are, in addition to Benetusser Burjassot,Segorbe, Paterna, Sagunto, Puerto Sagunto, Manises, Mislata and Alboraya.
They also recalled that there are three types of diabetes, the first one occurs when the pancreas does not produce insulin and affects 10 percent of the cases of the disease;the second type, when the operation of the pancreas is abnormal and does not produce sufficient insulin;And finally, gestational diabetes that happens in about 10 percent of total pregnancies.
It is a disease of "high prevalence" in the Valencian Community, since, according to data from the Department of Health, 13.9 percent of the population, around one in seven Valencians, suffers from diabetes.In total figures, only in the metropolitan area of Valencia there are 250,000 people with the disease.
Similarly, they stressed that almost half of these people do not know that they suffer from the ailment, and hence "the importance of dissemination and prevention campaigns."
Diabetes is the fifth cause of death in Spain and bends in number of deaths to those caused by traffic accidents.
In addition, more than 50 percent of people with diabetes have some complication, such as retinopathy, nephropathy, neuropathy, at the time of being diagnosed.
This disease is also the first cause in Spain of blindness duedialysis suffer diabetes.
Diabetes represents more than 6 percent of global health expenditure and that the annual sanitary cost per patient is 1,305.15 euros.Of this figure 28.6 percent (373.27 euros) was directly related to diabetes control, 30.51 percent (398.20 euros) with their complications and 40.89 percent (533,68 euros) was not related.
The average cost of a patient without complications was 883 euros compared to 1,403 of a patient with microvascular complications;the 2,022 when there were macrovascular complications and the 2,133 when both types of complications coexisted.