Specialists from more than 40 countries will update the control of diabetes and vascular treatments, in two congresses that will simultaneously meet, from seven to December 9 of this year, in the Varadero spa, Matanzas.
Exclusively with the ACN the doctor of Science Manuel Raíces, president of the Scientific Committee, announced that the forum controlling diabetes and its most severe complications will be developed in plenary and symposium conferences and will deal with the prevention of that disease, its metabolic control and theMolecular biology of the healing processes.
In addition, in that appointment they will deepen the therapies in the world for the management of diabetic foot ulcers and the implementation of health programs, aimed at the comprehensive control of the patient with diabetes, said Dr. Raíces, an expert at the Center for Genetic Engineering andBiotechnology (CIGB), of the Biocubafarma Business Group.
Meanwhile, the Angiocaribe International Congress 2016 contemplates vascular treatments and procedures associated with vascular surgery, with emphasis on healing therapies associated with non -diabetic wounds, he said.
The novelty in the organization of these congresses is that with the registration in one of them, the delegates will be able to participate in the scientific sessions of both events, taking into account the proximity of work in the management of the ulcers of the diabetic foot, and theof peripheral arterial disease in these patients.
Also the tools and methodologies developed and implemented in the management of wounds and vascular complications of vascular angiologists and surgeons, he emphasized.
The International Federation of Diabetes refers that this condition currently affects more than 415 million people on the planet, about half of the patients cannot control their blood sugar levels with current medications, diets and exercises, bywhich increases the risk of complications.
In Cuba there are almost a million inhabitants with diabetes, due to inadequate lifestyles, such as the lack of physical exercises, obesity and sedentary lifestyle, and eating habits, fundamentally, he stressed.