Because the prevalence of obesity and diabetes has not stopped increasing in recent years, and it is expected to continue doing it very importantly in the coming decades, the approach to these diseases is raised as one of the main challengesFor health professionals, and especially for future specialists in endocrinology and nutrition who attend this course.
In this way, the XX Endocrinology Course for Postgraduate 2015, held by the Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition (SEEN), and which has had the collaboration of Lilly Diabetes, has focused part of its content on these two pathologies, which theWorld Health Organization (WHO) has described as 'epidemics' of this century.
WHO has calculated that currently 39 percent of adult people aged 18 or over and 13 percent are obese.In the case of diabetes, the progression planned for the coming years is alarming;So much so that the figures of the disease are expected to suffer today more than 382 million people worldwide, increase 55 percent, until almost 600 million people affect 2035.
In this sense, the Coordinator of the Course and Vocal of Continued Training of the Board of Directors of the SEEN, Dr. FedericTheir repercussions on the quality and expectation of life and on health expenditure have placed them within health priorities. "
Regarding the course, the program, of 20 school hours, has included conferences taught by relevant specialists of endocrinology and nutrition and specialties related in the multidisciplinary approach to the patient with endocrinological pathology, in addition to practical sessions of clinical cases or diagnostic techniques such as theThyroid ultrasound.
Finally, the Course Coordinator and Continued Training Member of the Board of Directors of the SEEN, Dr. Carmen Fajardo, explained that "in the treatment of diabetes we have new drugs that allow to individualize therapeutic management. In the case ofObesity, although the current pharmacological alternatives for their management are still limited, in the inaugural conference the drugs in research or development and their preliminary results have been addressed. "
