Descending diabetes is very expensive to the country.
With a preventive intervention, IMSS would cost 230 pesos per person per year, but already dealing with complications in the patient, as is the case until now, it costs 230 thousand pesos, Mikel Arriola, director of the Institute, a director of the Institute during his participation in the second forum in the second forum in the second forum inHealth Report: Obesity and Diabetes.
The consequences of a late or wrong diagnosis to diabetics have caused up to 14.6% to suffer diabetic retinopathy, 4.9%, blindness;And that 3% require amputations, said David Kershenobich, director of the National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition, at his master conference.
The problem, said Julieta Ponce, director of the Food Orientation Center, is that the decisions of the health authorities to combat obesity and diabetes have arrived late, in addition to that they are isolated and ineffective.
"Patients are not being adequately diagnosed, we can lose ourselves in many of the health policies, but here there are hard figures that force us to take action," Ponce warned.
Senator Miguel Barbosa, who is diabetic and who was amputated his right foot, considered that public policies to combat obesity and diabetes are insufficient and reach a limited sector of the population.
“I am not an example of a culture of prevention.I was a closet diabetic all my life, until this happened to me (amputation).Without a doubt, all those who have access to medical services: take care of it, ”he warned.
Obesity against the future
Although the consumption of sugary drinks in childhood affects the development of children, in Mexico it consumes 62% of children under six months, while in France only 1% of children under six months consume sweet drinks, compared Juan Ángel Rivera, director of the director of theNational Institute of Public Health (INSP).
"Then, when we reach school age, Mexicans take sugary drinks and the French, water."
In future development, the impact of this intake is reflected in diseases and deaths: "The number of deaths due to sugary drinks was 18 thousand a year directly attributable," he added.
