Health professionals in the province of Cádiz have recently published two scientific works in which they analyze the prevalence of two pathologies, specifically of diabetes mellitus in the Gaditana province and hypothyroidism throughout Andalusia according to the consumption of drugs for diabetes and thyroid hormoneDuring 2014.
Both works have been coordinated by José Escribano, family doctor of the San Roque Clinical Management Unit, in the Health Area of the Campo de Gibraltar, who has highlighted the use of data registered in the databases of the Public Health System of Andalusiafor the realization of these studies.
The diabetes -centered study evaluates the registration of patients who had consumed antidiabetic drugs during 2014 in the province of Cádiz.
Once the data was analyzed, the authors considered that the prevalence of diabetes known and treated in this province exceeded globally and for any age strip the values known in Spain.
In addition, they confirmed a direct relationship of this prevalence with age and could obtain data in children and young people, who did not exist so far included in virtually no study on the subject.In addition to a notary, this work has been prepared by Marisa Méndez Esteban (pharmacist in the Campo de Gibraltar area), Antonio García Bonilla (pharmacist in the Northern Area of Cádiz) and Alfredo Michán Doña (specialist of the Internal Medicine Unit of the Jerez Hospital).
Regarding the study on hypothyroidism, the authors analyzed the registration of patients who consumed a certain drug during 2014, prescribed in the 382 units of Clinical Management of Primary Care of the 33 areas of health management or primary care districts throughout Andalusia.
According to the study, the prevalence of hypothyroidism in Andalusia calculated by the consumption of levothyroxine is much higher than what is described so far for the European population.Thus, when the pediatric population is ruled out, values are more important, since one of each thirteen adult women in Andalusia receives treatment with thyroid hormone.
There is an important difference by sex, with a greater affectation of women, although it decreases progressively with age, mainly due to an increase in prevalence in men.The largest prevalence are found in the health areas and districts of the interior and more mountainous areas, in contrast to the areas of coastal predominance that present less prevalence.
Vanessa Santos Sánchez of the Foundation for the Management of Biomedical Research Cádiz participated in this work coordinated by Escribano;Carolina Payá-Giner and Mª Isabel Méndez-Eesteban, of the UGC of Pharmacy of the Campo de Gibraltar area;Antonio García-Bonilla of the Pharmacy UGC of the Northern Health Management Area of Cádiz;Manuela Márquez Ferrando, of the Pharmacy UGC of the Bahía-La Janda Primary Care District;and Alfredo Michán Doña, of the UGC of Internal Medicine of the Jerez Hospital.Along with them, two professionals from the Malaga-Guadalhorce Primary Care District, specifically José Mancera Romero, of the UGC Ciudad Jardín, and Antonio Hormigo Pozo, of the UGC Puerta Blanca, have participated.
José Escribano and Alfredo Michán coordinate a research group that brings together primary care professionals, internal medicine and clinical analysis laboratory of all areas of the province of Cádiz.