Well controlled patients save € 1200/year at the SNS

Each patient who maintains diabetes under control saves the SNS more than 1,200 euros per year
According to experts, the pandemic character of the disease forces "not to delay the implementation of policies and campaigns for social prevention and awareness".

Each non -controlled case of type 2 diabetes generates an annual cost of 2,132 euros per year, while a patient who maintains the pathology under control only requires an annual investment of 883 euros, which represents 58.6% savings.
The fact, contributed by the Federation of Spanish Diabetics (FEDE), shows, according to this entity, “the urgent need to allocate resources to the implementation of therapeutic education policies aimed at diabetic people, for the correct management of theirpathology".
Only in Spain, diabetes affects 1.5 million people and represents between 15% and 20% of health expendMarch of Policies and Campaigns for Prevention and Social Sensitization, through which to transfer to society that type 2 diabetes is a pathology that can be prevented and even avoid without great sacrifices, only with the maintenance of healthy lifestyle habits ”.

In the thread of the pandemic character of this disease, the endocrinologist and nutritionist of the USP San Camilo Hospital in Madrid, Dr. Alejandro Domingo, ensures that type 2 diabetes could affect 50% of Spaniards in 2050.

On the occasion of World Diabetes Day, which is celebrated on November 14, this Madrid health center has launched the campaign 'Do not wait any longer ... Get the test', whose objective is that "citizens know if they are diabetic orNo, "explains Domingo.

I will also give some figures:

For each euro invested in prevention, 20 expenses are saved in complications derived from diabetes.

A well -controlled diabetic is about 880 euros per year to the system.And a poorly controlled one, just over 2100 euros.

Diabetes represents between 15 and 20% of total health expenditure.

We are already about 13% of the adult population that we have diabetes.

Almost half of the diabetics do not know the disease.

What do these figures take us?to the primary imperative need to establish effective and immediate policies for the prevention and control of the disease.We cannot allow this to continue growing, because a point (not too distant, given the evolution) will arrive that the system will not be able to support this expense.And in diabetes the treatment of acute is absolutely ineffective.Here we must prevent and invest in education, so that this excessive amount in the treatment of acute and complications is reduced.But so far instead, consumables are limited to rationing, which represent less than 5% of the total expenditure caused by diabetes.If you cut in the main control tool, your expenses for complications will increase.It is drawer.