Professor Ángel Sánchez warns that 50% of diabetics are poorly controlled.
"What they now call diabetes surgery is actually obesity surgery. Probably 75% of adult diabetics enter the disease along the path of obesity."
It is said by the academic numerary of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Salamanca Ángel Sánchez, who yesterday intervened in the month of the health of Caja Rural with the first of the two conferences (the next one is Thursday) about the adult diabetes mellitus (the adult (theType 2).
Initially considered an endocrinological disease (by the elevation of glucose and an insulin deficit), it is currently considered a "metabolically complex" pathology, since in fact the most important thing is its "severe cardiovascular impact, which is the one that increases morbidityand mortality of diabetic patients.
Diabetes is a very frequent disease, since it affects between 12% and 15% of the population over 35 years of age and up to 25% when estimated in people over 65.In addition, its incidence "increases progressively", also among young patients (the one known as type 2 or adult).The main causes, says Ángel Sánchez, are three: "Obesity, sedentary lifestyle and uncontrolled hypercaloric diets", due to "fast food diets, the changes that have been in the lifestyle and another multitude of factors."
"No more than 50% of patients are well controlled," explains the academic."And also the patient has to understand that it is often not only diabetic, but has other comorbidity factors, has a cardiac, respiratory, renal or cholesterol or high voltage pathology. It has to control diabetes but also the other factorsassociated cardiovascular risk, which are those that partially condition the prognosis of diabetes. "The treatments have improved "significantly."