Diabetes patient's profile is a 69 -year -old hypertensive man

The profile of the patient with type 2 diabetes attended by the Primary Centers (CAP) of the Catalan Institute of Health (ICS) is a 69 -year -old man with arterial hypertension, an average evolution of the disease of 8.44 years andA diagnostic age of 60 years.

The ICS Primary Care Teams (EAP) serve a total of 366,596 people with type 2 diabetes, which represents 8.1% of the population of legal age assigned to these centers, a figure that reaches 9.34% inUrban environments with lower socioeconomic level, as reported yesterday in a statement.The prevalence of the disease also increases with age, so that among people over 70 they reach up to 25%.

Of the total affected by type 2 diabetes, 55.8% are men and the rest are women;More than 45% of patients have smoked at some point in their lives, and of these, 14.3% still smoke today.Likewise, 71.6% of the patients treated have hypertension and 6.1% have heart failure;12.3% suffer ischemic heart disease;8.9% a retinopathy, and 7.4%, a cardiovascular disease.

Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease that is related to obesity and a unhealthy lifestyle, although family history and genetics have an important role in their appearance.

It is related to what is called metabolic syndrome, which includes several clinical manifestations such as arterial hypertension, glucose levels and high triglycerides and excess fat around the waist.

There are 415 million people with diabetes worldwide and the International Diabetes Federation warns that in 2040 one in 10 adults will suffer from it, which will mean 642 million people.Type 1 represents 13 % of diabetes cases in Spain.It affects 10,000 children under 15 and 1,200 new cases are counted each year.Also, more than 2 million Spaniards do not know that they suffer from the disease and only 59 % of type 2 diabetes patients are adherent to the recommended treatment.

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Diabetes affects almost 6 million people in Spain and is responsible for 25,000 deaths a year, in addition to being behind 7 out of 10 non -traumatic amputations of the lower extremities and being responsible for 16 % of blindness cases.As explained by the Spanish Federation of Diabetes on the occasion of the World Day of this disease that was held yesterday, diabetes is a disorder of the process of the process that converts food into energy and insulin is the most important factor.