Preventive work to stop diabetes
By: Yaqueline De la Rosa @Guantánamo, Nov. 11 .- This province reaches this November 14 the International Day of Diabetes with a better diagnosis of this disease and prioritized assistance. More than 15 thousand patients are benefited, knowing the importance of compliance with diet and other health measures for improving their quality of life.
The results are the fruit of screening high-risk groups including the obese, with factors that influence the appearance of diabetes type 1, 2 and gestational integral addition to monitoring these patients through multidisciplinary consultations that involve the podiatrist, dietitian, dentist, psychologist and other specialists, said Dr. Roberto Castellanos, head of the program of attention to this condition in the territory.
He added that at Guantanamo so far reported 44 deaths from diabetes, the fifth cause of mortality in the province, second only to heart disease, malignant neoplasms, cerebrovascular diseases and accidents.
This disease which affects the territory to persons aged 50 years and shows discrete trend mainly females, reaching a prevalence rate of 3.2 per 100 thousand inhabitants, an indicator that corresponds to the national average.
Given the growing number of diabetics in the province and the rest of the country, health promoters, epidemiologists and family doctors intensify prevention efforts and screening to ensure early detection and appropriate treatment setting, depending on the type of diabetes involved follow a strict diet, practice of physical exercises and other measures.
The World Diabetes Day is celebrated every year on 14 November in celebration the birthday of Frederick Banting, who along with Charles Best, is credited with the discovery of insulin in 1921, a drug that allows indicators stabilize sugar in the organism.
It affects over 230 million people in the world and is causing complications such as cerebrovascular disease, nephritic, coronary and retinopathies.Translation: Ilia Charon @
