In Mexico there are 12 million people with diabetes, which means that between 7 and 10 percent of the adult population suffers from this metabolic disease, considered the most impact worldwide in labor and economic costs.
In an interview, the general director of the Civil Hospital of Guadalajara (HCG), Héctor Raúl Pérez Gómez, warned that it is estimated that by 2025 up to 15 percent of the adult population in the country will develop diabetes “and by 2030 the figure could increaseUp to 17 percent, since Mexicans have a high genetic predisposition to develop it, ”said Pérez Gómez, after making known the twentieth International Congress Advances in Medicine Civil Hospital of Guadalajara (CIAM) 2019.
He indicated that another aspect with a high impact on public health is the percentage of overweight and obesity, which reaches 65 percent of the Mexican population, and that constitute risk factors to develop cardiovascular diseases.
When these two factors are combined - obesity and diabetes - we have a time bomb that may be very close to explode in terms of the serious financial problems that the health system can face in Mexico in the coming years, ”he said.
Pérez Gómez said that diabetic patients can develop problems such as retinopathy, which affects 10 percent of these patients causing blindness;The nephropathy, which affects up to a tenth of the patients, who may require dialysis and hemodialysis services, and even a transplant.
Also 50 percent of lower extremities amputations that are carried out in Mexico are related to diabetes and their vascular and infectious complications;In addition to half of the deaths from cardiovascular problems, they have diabetes or obesity as a base disease.
This represents an economic cost, since the attention to diabetes and obesity represents 30 percent of the budget for health in our country;In addition to the 70 billion pesos of indirect cost due to the working days that a diabetic loses due to health problems, he emphasized.
This issue will be the discussion axis during the CIAM 2019, which will take place from February 21 to 23 with a program made up of three master conferences, 20 disciplinary modules, 426 conferences, 314 participating teachers, three forums and a medical expo.
In addition, it also includes the Seventh International Congress of Scientific Nursing 2019, which will be developed in parallel, said CIAM Executive President Dr. José Martín Gómez Lara.
Among the speakers are the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Professor Peter Add and Dr. Joseba Barroeta Urquiza, General Director of the Dr. Gregorio Marañon University General Hospital, in Spain, as well as specialists from 13 countries in America and Europe.