The Benavente Diabetics Association (CANIB) has made a total of 298 glycemias (blood glucose analysis) in the tent he installed this morning in the Plaza de Santa María within the campaign of early detection of diabetes that the association performsThroughout the year.
This activity is part of the XVIII Diabetological Week that takes place coinciding with November 14 in which World Diabetes Day is celebrated.
Of the tests analyzed 263 were performed to people without diagnosed diabetes, and of them five possible cases of this disease have been detected.These determinations made exceeded what is considered standardized by the World Health Organization.In the informative tent, OLD volunteers advised these people who go to their primary care doctor to be the one who determines a possible diagnosis of diabetes.Age between 22 months and 91 years have approached the tent.
In this edition, there have been a total of 35 diabetics that have undergone the test and of them more than 17% had altered blood glucose figures, which indicates a bad control of the disease.The association considers to make an effort in diabetological education, absently absent in the approach to type 2 diabetes (which mainly affects older people and 90 percent of people with diabetes).Once again, it regrets the lack of awareness and apathy of these people about the importance of knowing the disease and basic pillars of a correct treatment (medication, diet and exercise) that could slow down the appearance of complications such as retinopathy, nephropathy or neuropathy.
Precisely this year the campaign on the occasion of World Diabetes Day emphasizes the importance of preventing complications or delaying its appearance by maintaining blood glucose levels, blood pressure and cholesterol as close to the normal ones as possible.Diabetes is one of the main causes of blindness, cardiovascular or renal disease and amputation of the lower extremities.
The diabetological week closes tomorrow with the talk about ocular involvement in diabetes ”by the ophthalmologist Mari Ángeles Sierra Rodríguez, starting at 8 pm in the hostel.This afternoon, it will be the nephrologist Rodrigo Avellaneda Campos, in charge of exposing the presentation on diabetes and cardiovascular risk.