The Spanish Diabetes Federation (FEDE) has started the campaign "Diabetes does not rest, you" with the aim of sensitizing about the increase in penetration of insulin pumps and the financing of continuous glucose monitoring to improve thepatient's quality of life.
In Spain, 1,235 new cases of type 1 diabetes mellitus are diagnosed every year in children under 15 and, according to data from the technology group in Diabetes Fenin, only 4 % use insulin bombs, which places Spain in the penultimate position, well below the European average located at 15 %.
76 % of patients failIn a statement.
The insulin pump currently has an integrated monitoring system capable of avoiding hypoglycemia in 83.1 % of cases and warning the patient through an alarm system.
As Lorenzo explains, "it is necessary to increase the treatment with insulin infusion pump that, despite its demonstrated effectiveness and efficiency to reduce indirect costs of diabetes caused by chronic complications and favor a better quality of life in people with diabetesType 1, still has a low use in Spain. "
The objective of the campaign is also to avoid, as far as possible, the inequality between autonomous communities.
Of all of them, only Extremadura approaches the European average with 14 % of patients who use the insulin pump.