Diabetes has become one of the main battle horses of developed countries of the 21st century.Currently 13.5 percent of the Spanish population suffers from this disease, although the figure could double in the next 20 years as a result of sedentary lifestyle and obesity.To prevent these figures from increasing, more than a thousand specialists will gather from Thursday in Malaga in the 22nd National Congress of the Spanish Diabetes Society.
Federico Soriguer, head of the Carlos Hay.The president of the Local Organizing Committee also said that eight percent of the patients do not know that they are and that another 13 percent suffer from a state of prediabetes.And all this because of obesity, which suffers 28.5% of the population and sedentary lifestyle, which affects 60% of Spaniards.
Soriguer was clear about it: "Diabetes will continue to increase in the coming years, because obese children will now be greater diabetics in the future."In fact, he considered that the solutions must come from the hand of scientists and politicians and that they will always be in the long term."Two or three generations must pass to combat the disease with guarantees," he said.
The Congress will take place on April 14, 15 and 16 at the Palacio de Congresos de Málaga.The inaugural conference will be carried out by the president of the International Diabetes Federation, the Cameroonian Professor of Endocrinology, Jean Claude Mbanya, who will talk about the disease in the world.This visit was especially recognized by the organizers, who said it will be the first time that the top worldwide leader visits Spain.The meeting will have about one hundred speakers.
complicated disease
The presentation of the Congress also attended the managing director of the Carlos Haya Hospital, Antonio Pérez Rielo, and the head of the Diabetes Unit, Marisol Ruiz de Adana.Both were delighted from the celebration of the meeting in the capital and encouraged citizens to be interested in a very complicated disease to diagnose from the point of view of patients "because it shows no symptoms or is painful," in the words of Antonio Pérez Rielo.
The head of the hospital recommended periodic reviews to those who are in risk situations (people with obesity, arterial hypertension or with family history).This is why "in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease, specialists from multiple disciplines participate," as Pérez Rielo said.
