More than 650 internist, family, endocrine, stomatologists and cardiologists, among other specialties, analyzed yesterday the latest medical research and in the field of pharmacology for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, which affects a greater number of people.
The eleventh edition of the Diabetes y Obesidad meeting, inaugurated on Friday at the Palacio de Congresos de Torremolinos and closed yesterday, addressed the advances arising around this disease, whose cases have quadrupled among the world population in recent decades.
Both days focused on the study of new drugs and medical research for the treatment of diabetic patients, as well as the reduction of the irrigation associated with their illness and the improvement of their quality of life.
This scientific event in Torremolinos took over from the meeting held in Alicante last year and has been organized by the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine, the Spanish Foundation of Internal Medicine, the Andalusian Society of Internal Medicine, the Vascular Risk Section and Cardiac rehabilitation sectionof the Spanish Society of Cardiology, the Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition, the Spanish Diabetes Society, and the Board of Trustees of the REDGSPD Foundation.
WHO data
In the case of Spain, three percent of the deaths recorded in Spain in 2016 were due to direct cause of diabetes, with a total of 10,420 deaths.In 2014, and according to data from the World Health Organization, more than one in three adults were overweight, and more than one in ten were obese.Among the complications of diabetes are myocardial infarctions, brain vascular accidents, blindness, renal failure and amputations of the lower limbs.The organizers of the appointment took into account "the multidisciplinary involvement" of the disease in both days.
There are three great forms of diabetes: type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes.The cause of type 1 diabetes is unknown, and those who suffer from it need the daily insulin administration to survive.Type 2 diabetes is the most frequent, and is largely due to excess weight and physical inactivity.Before, as explained in the appointment, it only affected adults, but now it is increasingly frequent in children and young people.