The Leon Endocrine Elías Delgado and Alberto Díez organize a three -day cycling route per Babia with forty people with Diabetes de León and Holland.The tour precedes a tour of Sierra Nevada.They want to demonstrate the benefits of intense exercise and the effectiveness of continuous glucose meters.
The Leonese endocrine of Riolago de Babia, Elías Delgado, and Berciano Alberto TenContinuous glucose meters, an apparatus that the Ministry of Health of Castilla y León does not subsidize but that is public access in communities such as the Basque Country, Cantabria and Castilla-La Mancha.
In the activity, which has the support of the Spanish Diabetes Foundation (FED) and the Dutch Foundation Bas Van de Goor (FBVG), forty Dutch and Leon people will participate.The two Leonese
They supervised for the first time the health of the participants in an intense challenge in one of the most demanding routes in the world, Mont Blanc, organized for six days in September.Now they schedule the ‘Babia 2018 Mini-Secret
"We want to demonstrate that physical exercise, in addition to being an important part of people with diabetes, is a first -order educational tool."Educational because people with diabetes learn to handle their illness in intense exercise situations «and will be much easier to control their glucose levels in their day to day.The patient's quality of life, ”says Delgado.The Leonese has dedicated the last twenties to investigating diabetes mellitus, studies that have made him deserving of a chair at the Principality Academy of Medicine as a corresponding member.He is also a Professor of Medicine at the University of Oviedo and Head of the Diabetes Section of the Endocrinology and Nutrition Service of the Central Hospital of Asturias.
Also great routes
The sports-educational activity of Babia will take place in June, the following destination after touring the landscapes of the Pyrenees and the Alps."Once the sports activity is finished, a training meeting will take place where the participants will present the specific problems that have arisen during the day and various professionals in the field will hold training talks for them."
Each route will have the possibility of making three different degrees of difficulty to make it accessible to all participants.
"We are elaborating a study, whose conclusions are not yet closed, which will demonstrate that continuous glucose meters are the best way to control diabetes, replacing the puncture," says the endocrine of Ponferrada, Alberto Díez, a solo pioneer of theseSmall challenges in the landscapes of Bierzo.«The Ministry of Health of Castilla y León does not subsidize them but there are communities such as the Basque Country, Cantabria and Castilla-La Mancha that have them within their portfolio of services».An device for measuring diabetes without a puncture costs 135 euros per month because you have to change it every 14 days."These intense exercise routes serve us to verify the effectiveness of two types of measurements and the results are clearly better with continuous glucose meters."Alberto Díez has been head of the Endocrinology and Nutrition Unit of El Bierzo Hospital for a month.
Studies
Elías Delgado has led the first great study on the disease in Spain, a multidisciplinary work that has had a team of thirty specialistswho checked the health of 5,000 people for four years.
"The best educator of a person with diabetes is another person with diabetes who has overcome that same problem," he says.
In the encounter of people with the same problem in a relaxed and relaxed environment, it is easy for them to put in common "concerns, doubts and fears and share the solutions have been found among all," says Delgado.
Sharing experiences is the main objective of the routes such as the one organized in Babia, is to share experiences to solve doubts.«It is like training and a contact of people with diabetes, who realize that any activity can be done.We, doctors, are going to solve doubts and control their evolution, ”says Berciano Alberto Diez.