Mercedes Roldós in the summer camp of the Tenerife Diabetes Association

The Minister of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, Mercedes Roldós, attended the inauguration of the Summer Camp for children with diabetes organized by the Association for Diabetes de Tenerife (ADT) in the hostel of the Monte de Anaga (Anaga Rural Park (Anaga Rural Park), where the presentation of the summer colony for children with diabetes was also held.

It is an activity that has been declared of health interest and free tobacco smoke by the Ministry of Health of the Canary Islands Government that participates by releasing different professionals to integrate the human team of the camp and providing the necessary medical material.

For a week, a total of 30 boys and girls with diabetes between 8 and 13 years old, enjoy in the summer camp organized by the ADT that will end next Saturday, July 12.For them, various workshops such as diabetological education, as well as recreational activities, team sports, or moments to enjoy the beach and practice hiking.

The main objectives pursued are, among others, to ensure that from an early age people with diabetes acquire greater control over the disease.Likewise, it is tried that minors achieve greater self -esteem and autonomy that helps them assume and accept their diabetes, demonstrating that diabetic children can perform any activity like the rest of children.

A complete team of professionals will supervise the little ones at all times.A pediatrician who goes from a children's hospital in Barcelona and six other health professionals, among which are nurses, diabetes educators and a family doctor, released from various public health centers in Tenerife and La Palma, will complete the health team.In addition, leisure and free time monitors, cooking personnel, dietitian, social worker and voluntary personal.

During this day, the Minister of Health was accompanied by the president of the IASS, Cristina Valido;the director of the Health Area of ​​Tenerife, José María Casañas;The president of ADT, Julián Antonio González and the manager of ADT and director of the colony, Fran Darias.

diabetes: a problem of world interest
Diabetes has become a problem of world interest in the 21st century that advances practically without knowing borders, already reaching about 240 million people in the world and being able to extend more than 380 million in twenty years, according to predictions of the FederationInternational diabetes.

The prevalence of this disease in the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands is 8.7 %, for the population between 18 and 75 years of age, being able to reach up to 20.9 % in type 2 diabetes, in the age group65 to 75 years.It can be estimated that in the Canary Islands there are approximately 150,000 people with diabetes, although half of them do not know or do not recognize that they are.

A particular problem and of great transcendence is precisely that of diabetes that affects childhood and youth.Traditionally, there has been talk of children's diabetes and adult diabetes, associating this to type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes respectively, but the increasingly frequent presence of type 2 diabetes - generally linked to obesity - in minors agoobsolete the previous classification.

To type 2 diabetes, which is avoidable in about 80 % of cases with simple preventive standards: promotion of breastfeeding, surveillance and control of body weight, healthy eating, and adequate and sufficient physical exercise, now adds thetype 1 diabetes, for which a system ofPrevention, although their complications can be avoided or reduced with similar healthy behaviors.

the work of the Ministry of Health
During the last months, the Ministry of Health has worked on the threat that diabetes supposes for childhood and youth promoting various actions.Thus, the Ministry of Health has updated the School Attention Guide with Diabetes;Edited posters and brochures alluding to diabetes and their characteristics and incidence in childhood and youth, which have been distributed in almost thousand different points, including 107 health centers, 707 pharmacy offices, all municipalities of the Canary Islands and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and other institutions and otherentities;broadcast on radio and television advertising wedges related to diabetes, counting in this task with the participation of ECCA radio;Published an update course on diabetes in childhood and youth, of a non -face -to -face nature, whose support has been the platform of the Virtual Campus of the School of Sanitary and Social Services of the Canary Islands and aimed at health and education professionals.

In addition, the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands has supported and participated in the acts and activities of World Diabetes Day, organized by the Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote Diabetes Associations or other institutions and organisms with nutritional education workshops;Diabetes marches or programming a cycle of diabetes conferences in childhood and youth for general public.

Diabetes is a disease associated with high morbidity and mortality.It is one of the most frequent causes of blindness, it is also an important cause of renal failure, with the consequent need for dialysis or renal transplant.Likewise, people suffering from diabetes have a higher risk of myocardial infarction and stroke.

the latest studies in the Canary Islands
Specialists at the Insular University Hospital of Gran Canaria have recently studied the prevalence of diabetes in the Canary Islands.The epidemiological study figure the prevalence of diabetes in 13.2 % of the population.

The research project developed by the Endocrinology Service of the Insular University Hospital of Gran Canaria has addressed the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus and its relationship with cardiovascular risk factors in Telde.The specialists who have carried out the project ensure that this Grancanario municipality, due to its demographic and geographical characteristics, has representativeness to all of the Canary Islands.1,193 patients were studied.

According to the data obtained, the prevalence of diabetes in the population of Telde with more than 30 years is 13.2 percent.Likewise, 14.2 % of the population studied presents alteration of glucose regulation, which is known as prediabetes.In addition, 28.2 % of valued people suffer from metabolic syndrome, pathology associated with a higher risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.The prevalence of obesity is 33.4 %, arterial hypertension of 31.6 %, 21.3 %hypercholesterolemia, and 24 %hyperglyceidemia.The prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors is similar to that of other places in Spain.Compared to other autonomous communities, the Canary Islands have one of the largest prevalence of diabetes but not the highest.

In the study, also, obesity, sedentary lifestyle, smoking and alcoholism have been taken into account, because they are factors that may be associated with coronary heart disease.This disease and arterial hypertension are frequent in diabetic patients, increasing the morbidity and mortality of people who suffer from it.

On the other hand, a study made in June 2008 by the University Hospital of theCandelaria revealed that 35% of pregnant women with a high glucose rate do not follow diabetes prevention protocols.Given this, experts insist on the need for pregnant women to raise awareness of the importance of going to their health centers to carry out the appropriate reviews.The work was done on a sample of 3,724 women from the reference health area of ​​the hospital.

Of the total sample, a group of 837 women with the O'Sullivan positive test is not subsequently performed by the necessary oral glucose overload tests.Of these 837 women with a high blood glucose index, 294 breach the protocol and, from them, around 73 will have gestational diabetes mellitus.This study has just been published in the magazine Medicine Clinical of Barcelona, ​​one of the most important Spanish -speaking medical publications.

The work has allowed us to observe that non -compliant pregnant women are older than those who do complySometimes, they do not go to their primary care centers to perform the recommended tests.

A study awarded by the Ministry of Health
An award -winning study in the annual edition of the Research Awards of the University Hospital of La Candelaria allows you to rule out diabetes in the Canarian population under 55 years of age with a family history with this disease.The work was published in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice in December 2007.

The authors of the award -winning study conclude that, through a very simple method, type 2 diabetes can be discardedwith diabetes to determine the probability index that the person is not diabetic.

Thus, in the case of man, the measure of the waist would be divided by height and this multiplied by 100, to which the age would be added, and 10 more points in the case of having or having had a father, mother or motherDiabetic brotherIn the case of women, the procedure would be equal to that of the man but it should be added 25 more points if he had some pregnancy with gestational diabetes.If the result is less than 100 points, the probability of not being diabetic is 99%.