Diabetes affects women more than men

Diabetes deteriorates much more the health of women than of men and supposes for them a higher risk, even mortality, as they have explained in Madrid several specialists in the presentation of the meeting focused on women with diabetes.

The conference has been presented by doctors Fernando Gómez Peralta, specialist of the Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition Unit at the General Hospital of Segovia and secretary of the Spanish Diabetes Society;Susana Monereo, head of the Endocrinology Service of the Gregorio Marañón Hospital;and Sara Artola, family doctor and coordinator of the "redgdps".

In this meeting, promoted by Novartis, the specific differences between diabetes in women and men will be studied this weekend;It is celebrated in the context of International Women's Day, next Sunday.

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In the presentation of this meeting, it has been pointed out that diabetes is a disease whose prevalence is increasing, and whose cost for the health system, both with direct and indirect expenses, is around 10% of the total cost.

Women are more resistant to insulin and suffer more hypoglycemial type 2 diabetes, which accounts for 90% of diabetes, approximately, is the fourth cause of female mortality in Spain.

In total, in Spain the prevalence of diabetes is approaching 14%, about six million people.Dr. Gómez Peralta has exposed a series of data on the greatest risk that diabetic women have.

30% more possibilities than men of stroke, with the same treatment;Mortality in type 1 diabetes of women is 37% higher;The risk of coronary heart disease 154% more;and of kidney disease, 44% more in women than in men.

Women are also more resistant to insulin treatments and suffer more hypoglycemia episodes.

Dr. Monereo has exposed the characteristics of diabetes in women by ages, but has found two factors common to all ages.

Common factors

"The woman is infringed in relation to the man, and her worst controlled diabetes", with greater complications in her health, said the doctor, who has considered that this fact must be studied thoroughly to know the causes.

"The woman is infringed and her diabetes, worse controlled," says a expert the second transverse factor is that obesity affects all stages of women's life, Money said, to add that diabetes with obesity is more difficult totreat.

This doctor has stated that in youth women are also more risk of the incidence of eating and mood behavior disorders;in the fertile age, for pregnancy;and in the mature age, for menopause.

Sara Artola has also pointed out that women with diabetes have a special risk and has pointed out that they go more frequently to primary care consultations, but put the follow -up of their family's health needs before their family.

And he has reported the implementation of the "Ladydiab" study, whose objective is to explore the barriers, knowledge, attitudes and behaviors in the management of diabetes in patients based on the gender difference.

Dr. Artola has highlighted the importance of prevention insisting on healthy eating and physical exercise, to all ages, and Dr. Monereo has added to these aspects, the relevance of sleeping well, seven or eight hours, and with quality in quality inThe rest.

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