Diabetes is one of the most prominent diseases in the group of pluripatological patients: 29.3 percent of them present, according to the study 'deep', carried out within the framework of the group of the pluripatological patient and the elderly of the SEMI (Spanish Society of Internal Medicine).
“According to this study, 46 percent of patients with heart disease had diabetes, 40 percent of patients with chronic diseases, 47 percent with neurological diseases, 40 percent of people with chronic kidney disease, and 43 byOne hundred in other clinical categories, ”explains Alberto Ruiz Cantero, coordinator of the Working Group, which celebrates its IX meeting in Seville, which is attended by more than 100 participants.
Patients over 80 years of age can present up to more than eight chronic diseases due to the increase in life expectancy in recent years.According to a study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), people with heart failure, stroke, diabetes and dementia that have more than three chronic diseases represent 74, 62, 47 and 64 percent of patients in patients inthe respective diseases.
Moreover, these pathologies only occur uniquely in very few cases: three percent in heart failure, five percent in dementia, 6 percent in stroke, 7 percent in atrial fibrillation, nine percentIn ischemic heart disease, 14 percent in diabetes and 18 percent in COPD.
Among the studies that are presented at the meeting is ‘discomfort’, a clinical trial of implementation of a tool for the discharge of medications in polymedicated pluripatological patients;‘ATLAN TIC’, a comprehensive care plan for patients with chronic diseases in advanced stages;‘Hiponat’, on the impact of hyponatremia and the adequacy of its management to clinical practice guides in areas of internal medicine, and another on the prognostic value of atrial fibrillation and its handling in the chronic complex patient.