The fourth edition of the 'Diabetes in your neighborhood' campaign, organized by the Diabetes Madrid Association, the Official College of Pharmacists and Madrid Health, with the sponsorship of Sanofi, aims to prevention and early detection of prediabetes and diabetesType 2 (DM2).
The campaign takes place during the month of November, World Diabetes Month, and the first half of December, time in which it is intendedThe importance of prevention.
The coordinator of the Food, Physical Activity and Health Program (Alas), Mercedes Ceinos, explained that from the program we work on the detection of prediabetes and specific interventions are carried out to avoid the development of this disease.
According to the pharmaceutical spokesmen, in 2015 a calculation was made and of the 415 million adults ill of diabetes, an increase up to 642 million was foreseen by 2040 and today, it is estimated that one in 10 adults will suffer this pathology.
To this situation has been added that one in two adults with type 2 diabetes has not been diagnosed, but according to experts up to 60 % of cases of type 2 diabetes could be prevented through interventions on the style of the style oflife.
The first vice president of the Official College of Pharmacists of Madrid, Manuel Martínez del Peral, has stressed that "through professional action in disease prevention and the promotion of healthy lifestyle habits, the guild's commitment is shown."