Nearly 4,000 runners have participated today in the Parque of Western Madrid in the different modalities of the race and popular walking through diabetes, which this year is based on its sixth edition, with the intention of highlighting the importance of sport for diabetics.
The race, in which the runners wore a blue shirt, has been the climax to the events that have happened this week on the occasion of World Diabetes Day, held on November 14 worldwide.
The president of the Madrid Diabetes Association, Juan Manuel Gómez, explained that the different sports modalities that have been disputed were aimed at "nobody staying out", since diabetes is a disease that affects people of any age andcondition.
Therefore, Gómez has indicated, there has been a race with a 10 kilometers, another 5 kilometers, a 2.2 -kilometer walk and children's races, aimed "to the whole family."
The president of the Madrid Association has highlighted the need to recognize, assume and learn to handle diabetes disease, with which you can live perfectly, he said.
To the pillars of disease care such as diet, self -control and medication, Gomez has said that the sport must be added, very important for diabetics, which in Spain suffer 5.5 million people diagnosed although it is calculated inHalf a million that are without diagnosing.
Actress Belinda Washington, who has been in charge of cutting the tape of this career, has highlighted the need to know the advances and improvements that occur in medicine on this disease and has highlighted the importance of sport, both for patientsdiabetics as for society.
For its part, the manager of the Diabetes Foundation, Ana Mateo, explained that with today's sporting act they wanted to draw attention to this disease and the need to take prevention measures and improve its control.EFE
At the same time, sports tests are also held today, the largest diabetes fair in Spain, open to runners and the rest of the public.