Some 1,500 people have participated today in the third meeting of patients with diabetes, which has been held in Madrid to expose the latest news about this disease, according to their organizers.
In Diabetes Experience Day, the World Diabetic Retinopathy World Barometer has been presented in Spain, which reveals that only one in five patients in follow -up for their diabetes states that it receives information from complications about the possible loss of vision and blindness.
The study, sponsored by Bayer and carried out in more than forty countries, has collected the opinion of 5,000 people, including diabetes (3,509) and health professionals (1,451).
Almost half of the respondents (47 percent) do not go to the ophthalmological review because it does not know that it is necessary and can prevent future problems.
In this way, 26 percent of the patients with diabetes have not reviewed the view in the last two years, while less than a third of the patients are diagnosed in time (they go to the consultation when the problems have already appearedof vision).
In the event, organized by www.canaldiabetes.com and that in this edition has broken its own record with 50 percent more participants with respect to the previous year, according to a press release, there has also been a study of "impact" impactEmotional among teenagers. "
This research, coordinated by Gemma Peralta, Iñaki Lorente and Francisco J. Hurtado and sponsored by Sanofi, shows an x -ray of adolescents with diabetes and reveals that the established treatments generate in them laziness, fear and anxiety, usually by stress, discomfort and risk.
The study also recognizes that the social integration of these young people is complicated since many of them consider diabetes is an interference to achieve that goal.
Adolescents, according to this analysis, value the same meetings and therapies to talk about how to face the disease.
In this edition, convened with the motto "Give your diabetes voice", Dr. Anna Novials has explained some of the more five hundred investigations led by cyberdem in Spain, while Professor José Luis Pedraz has dedicated a paper to the European projectDrive centered on pancreatic cell transplant.
Within the framework of this day, more than one hundred children between 4 and 12 years have participated in training activities on diabetes, according to the same sources.