The new cases of children's diabetes are increasing by 3.4 percent throughout Europe.If this trend continues, it would be duplicated in the next 20 years, according to the conclusions of an investigation research published in "Diabetology."
In this work, the authors coordinated by Chris Patterson, of the Queen's University Belfast (United Kingdom) public health center analyzed the incidence rates by age/sex for the age group from 0 to 14 years with data from 26 European centers(representing 22 countries) that had registered the newly diagnosed people over 25 years during the period 1989-2013.
The data showed significant increases in the incidence in all but two centers.Aunque some hospitals from countries with a high, including Finland, Norway and the United Kingdom, showed a reduction in recent years, together it has been obscured revealed an annual increase of 3.4 percent in the incidence.
Type 1 diabetes is a chronic disease characterized by the inability of the body of producing insulin and usually develops in the second decade of life.In type 1 diabetes, the pancreas does not produce insulin.Insulin is a hormone that helps glucose penetrate cells to supply energy.Without insulin, there is an excess of glucose that remains in the blood.
And while in recent decades progress has been made very significantly that they have allowed to improve the treatment of the disease, there is still much to do.Not surprisingly, the life expectancy of patients with type 1 diabetes, although it has improved in recent years, remains inferior to that of the population not suffered by the disease.
chronic disease
The authors conclude: «The increasing number of children diagnosed with this chronic disease, which is associated with increases in morbidity and mortality for life, has important implications for health responses.The limited success when identifying the origin-environmental causas or gen-environment interactions-that could eventually lead to disease prevention, means that you have to continue working to improve the quality of care to help reduce complications tolong term and deaths related to diabetes ».
For researchers, the key is to improve blood sugar control that will be achieved not only with more sophisticated insulin administration methods, “but also with a greater investment in services to provide support to well -trained care equipment anddedicated with a sufficient number to meet the growing needs of this group of children and their families ».