Logroño is the capital chosen to host next Tuesday the celebration of World Diabetes Day.
Diabetes that in La Rioja affect 36,000 people, although half are unknown, is a disease that does not hurt or cause symptoms in its initial stages, so its diagnosis is usually casual
At present, the implication of the patient in self -care, following adequate life habits with healthy eating and regular exercise, together with the numerous available pharmacological treatments, allow to develop a normal life.
This year Logroño has been the city chosen to host, next Tuesday, November 14, the national celebration of World Diabetes Day, a disease considered a pandemic since its prevalence has doubled since 1980. Then it affected 108 million people inEveryone, compared to more than 400 million today.
Announcer's poster of the events that Logroño will house on the occasion of the celebration of World Diabetes Day./ L.R.
Although in La Rioja there are registered 18,000 cases of people diagnosed in their medical history, it is believed that the disease affects another 18,000 people who do not know.In many cases it is usually discovered in the routine medical tests of a company review, for example, or in controls by another disease.
The head of Endocrinology of the San Pedro Hospital, María Ángeles Martínez de Salinas, promotes from her department an early diagnosis of diabetes through what is called the population or preventive medical examination.The San Pedro Hospital will install on your hall next Tuesday, day 14, tables aimed at, to all those interested citizens, tests of capillary glycemia and the Findrisk test that serves to estimate the risk of diabetes.
Acts
World Diabetes Day 2017, which annually summons the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) on November 14, this year gives special attention to diabetes problems in women.
Under the motto 'Women and Diabetes: Our right to a healthy future', in this edition it affects specially worrying data that affect the incidence and prevalence of the disease in the female sex, as well as in the particular consequences that thisHealth problem has in this part of the population.
Among others, specially overwhelming and worrying messages are pointed out: currently there are more than 199 million women living with diabetes and it is planned to increase up to 313 million by 2040.
One in 10 women around the world lives with diabetes and many do not have access to education, treatment and attention.Diabetes is the ninth main cause of death among women in the world, causing 2.1 million deaths every year.Two out of five women with diabetes are of reproductive age.One in 7 births is affected by gestational diabetes.
Given this situation, this year's campaign encourages "acting today to change tomorrow" and will promote the importance of affordable and equitable access to essential medicines and technologies, education for self -control and information required by all women at risk orthat live with diabetes so that they can achieve optimal results in the control of their diabetes, and reinforce their ability to prevent type 2 diabetes.
And it is that the dynamics of power, gender roles and socio -economic inequalities influence vulnerability to diabetes that women have when exposing them, for example, a poor diet and nutrition, physical inactivity and a delay in behaviorsof search for health care.
As usual, the Spanish Diabetes Society and the SED Foundation join this international campaign, focusing its actionsScientific, institutional and socio -health in a Spanish city.On this occasion, it will be Logroño that welcomes the main initiatives in this regard, with the development of a large number of activities from November 11 to 14.