Of the 150 thousand patients with diabetes in Tamaulipas, only 32 percent attach to the treatment for disease control.
According to the Registry of the Ministry of Health, in the State there are about 48 thousand people diagnosed with diabetes that follow their treatment, the rest does not return for medicines, or attention, after receiving the diagnosis.
Hence the importance of working to create a medium and long term culture is a task of all, citizenship.
In addition to the fact that many people are not treated and not careful, the increase in condition, also obeys the increase in population and age.
Population groups with more incidence of diabetes are older adults and it begins to manifest, even from 45 or 50 years.