The woman with diabetes is a reality that according to specialists should be studied specifically.Cardiovascular diseases kill 51 percent of European women compared to three percent of lives charged, as they point out from the European Cardiology Society.
Thus, the features of heart ailments are different between men and women, and in the case of diabetes as one of their risk factors, too.As Fernando Gómez Peralta, specialist at the Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition Unit at the General Hospital of Segovia and Secretary of the Spanish Diabetes Society, “must be discussed the differential features of women with diabetes, since we consider that there are scientific datathat justify the need for a specific approach ».
Thus, specialists in cardiovascular diseases throughout Spain have met these days in Madrid in the meeting "centered on women with diabetes" - organized by Novartis -, in which the affectation of the pathology has been discussed during the different stages of life."Health professionals must minimize the deficits observed in the care of women with diabetes, since these translate into worse health results in multiple variables such as cardiovascular disease," says Gómez Peralta.
The risk of heart disease is the most common complication of diabetes, but these complications are more frequent in women with diabetes than in man with this pathology.Moreover, women with diabetes who have suffered a heart attack have the lowest survival rates and lower quality of life than men with identical problems.
Therefore, during the day, "the profile of metabolic problems that develop in women with diabetes, with their differential characteristics, in the different stages of life," explains Gómez Peralta.Susana Monereo, head of the Endocrinology Service of the University Hospital of Gregorio Marañón, points out that «type II diabetes is a transversal disease that appears in all stages of women's life, especially due to the high prevalence of obesity.Before only this type of diabetes was diagnosed in adult women after 45-50 years or old, but this has changed ».
The woman with young diabetes
«In young women, diabetes clearly interferes with fertility: initial insulin resistance favors the appearance of polycystic ovaries and this entails ovulation problems and difficulty getting pregnant.On the other hand, diabetes significantly affect gestation since it can lead to macrosomic fetuses and various malformations, ”says Monereo.
Sara Artola, family doctor and coordinator of the "redgdps", which has remarked, during the day the woman with diabetes, that "diabetes during pregnancy constitutes a risk factor for the mother, the fetus and the newborn.Up to 12 percent of pregnant women have gestational diabetes (DG), especially due to the increase in obesity, delay in gestation age and the application of stricter diagnostic criteria ».
"Regarding the old woman, beyond the limitations of mobility derived from obesity, diabetes usually cause visual, renal and stroke problems," says Artola, and that is that those of advanced age are one of the groups are one of the groupswith more prevalence of this pathology.«Diabetes remains more frequent in men than in women, since almost 70% of cases are men, but from 45 years this trend begins to be invested and in over 75 years, both diabetes and other factorsof cardiovascular risk are more prevalent in women, ”says Gómez Peralta.
