In just over two months the 5th edition of Diabetes Experience Day will take place for which the organization estimates an assistance of more than 1500 people related to diabetes.The city of Barcelona will host on April 7 the fifth edition of a consolidated meeting on the calendar and where people with diabetes, their family and health environments are the protagonists through talks, where first -person experiences related to diabetes are counted.
The 2018 Experience Day Diabetes will take place in Fira Barcelona, specifically at the Montjuic Congresses Palace, in the city.An enclosure that brings together the necessary conditions for a great meeting of people with diabetes.The 2018 Experience Day Diabetes will be held again on Saturday with an attractive, television and family format with the aim of giving voice to diabetes.
The 5th edition of Diabetes Experience Day will dedicate part of the program to innovation and technology.The endocrine of the Clinic hospital in Barcelona, Dr. Ignacio Conget, will explain at what time are the advances in artificial pancreas.In addition, the program will have a complete section around apps that help manage the control of the disease and its multiple versions, as well as the latest technological advances that monitor the blood sugar of people with diabetes.
Clinical research will also have an important role.Cyberdem researcher Joan Marc Servitja will announce a recent investigation that has discovered a molecule involved in the dysfunction of insulin producing cells, and therefore in the development of diabetes.This research is framed in the possibility of transplanting pancreatic cells for the future healing of type 1 diabetes.
The event is conceived as a formation in modern, fresh and very emotional diabetes, which aims to contribute its grain of sand to diabetes formation.According to the Dawn2 study, more than 40% of people with diabetes have never received any training about their illness."We seek to inform, but also entertain and educate in diabetes, and why not do it in a pleasant and fun way, help patients with diabetes to better understand their situation and learn ways to control diabetes and increase their quality of life,"Angel Ramírez, creator of Diabetes Experience Day and director of Canal Diabetes, organizing entity of the event, has pointed out.
And it is that diabetes is defined by many specialists such as the great pandemic of the 21st century, affecting about 6 million people in Spain, and causing 25,000 deaths each year, in addition to being behind 7 out of 10 non -traumatic amputations of thelower limbs and be responsible for 16 % of cases of blindness.Worldwide, there are 415 million people with diabetes worldwide and experts say that it warns that in 2040 one in 10 adults will suffer from the disease, which will mean 642 million people.