Researchers from the CDC group of the Canary Islands (cardiovascular, diabetes and cancer) of the Research Unit of the University Hospital Ntra. Mrs. de Candelaria (Hunsc) and Primary Care Management of Tenerife, attached to the Ministry of Health of the Canary Islands Government, haveInitiated a new phase of collection and updating of data from the epidemiological study in which more than 7,000 canaries participate since 2000.
This is the largest population cohort recruited in the Canary Islands with which it is pursued and monitoring all those who participated in this work fifteen years ago, in order to verify their health status and analyze those factors related to theAppearance of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer, very frequent diseases in the Canarian population.
After starting different stages of sample collection in the Primary Care Health Centers of the North and South of Tenerife, El Hierro, La Palma and La Gomera, now a new round in Gran Canaria begins, specifically in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Between October 1 and 22, the Blanco Lomo Health Center, in Las Palmas, will be the meeting point for the study participants who have been previously contacted by letter by the researchers, to whom a physical examination will be performed, blood extraction for analysis and a data update interview.For this task, which has the indispensable collaboration of the Primary Care Management of Gran Canaria, a research team formed by two nurses and a pollster will be located in person at the health center on the indicated dates.
In the words of Dr. Mª del Cristo Rodríguez Pérez who, together with Dr. Antonio Cabrera, coordinates the CDC Cardiovascular, Diabetes and Cancer Group of the Research Unit of the University Hospital Ntra. Mrs. De Candelaria, "the idea is to concludeThe data update phase for this epidemiological study in the Metropolitan Zone of Gran Canaria at the end of 2015. In the first half of 2016, we will begin a new recruitment stage in the health centers of the North and South of Gran Canaria. "
CDC study of the Canary Islands, the first cohort of the general population of the islands
The "CDC of the Canary Islands" study that has been underway since 2000, has been aimed at investigating for the prevention of the main health problems of the population, which remain: heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.This study is led by Dr. Antonio Cabrera de León and co-direct by Dr. Mª Cristo Rodríguez Pérez, from the Research Unit of the Ntra University Hospital. Mrs. de Candelaria and the Primary Care Management of Tenerife although in thesame collaborate numerous researchers related to the world of health of all of the Canary Islands.
In the first years of the study (2000-2005) the participation of almost 7,000 canaries of all islands was achieved to maintain a telephone contact in which information about the aforementioned diseases was collected.
Fruit of your collaboration, aspects have been known fundamentally to cardiovascular prevention and diabetes in our environment.Many of these results are immediate application for prevention in the field of primary care, discovering, for example, what percentage of the Canarian population suffers from diabetes, arterial hypertension, high cholesterol and obesity.
It has also been proven thanks to this line of work that the care that diabetic patients have with their own disease underestimated the severity of it, in addition to having developed an equation that calculates the risk of heart attack for anyone living in the Canary Islands andaspires that doctors canuse it in the medical medical records.