The Medical Directorate of the San Antonio de Málaga Vithas Hospital, which is coordinated by Dr. Francisco Miralles, in collaboration with Janssen laboratories, have organized for December 11 and 12 a day with experts for updating in the treatment of diabetes.

The objective is to analyze the new techniques for the improvement of the quality of the diabetic patients and study the most current clinical research projects, which will be key in the coming years.

These I Diabetes Update Conference will be held at the Gibralfaro Parador in Malaga and will bring together a large group of experts in internal medicine.The objective is to "value the most current clinical investigations and see which paths can be key in the coming years to improve the diagnosis, patient assistance and follow -up," Dr. Miralles told Europa Press.

The sessions are framed within the Vithas Health Initiative, which seek to form and inform about health issues between different sectors of the population.Specifically, diabetes is a disease suffered by 180,000 people in the province of Malaga and affects cardiovascular, renal and sight functions mainly.

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In this professional forum, aspects such as the methods for measuring cardiovascular risk by José Luis Biachi, of the Regional Hospital of Algeciras (Cádiz), Dolores García from the Costa del Sol de Marbella Hospital (Málaga), which will talk about ISLGT2,Miguel Ángel Martínez, from the University of Navarra, who will analyze whether the Mediterranean diet, and Francesc Formiga, of the Bellvitge Hospital in Barcelona, ​​which will deal with the incidence of diabetes in the development of dementia is so beneficial.

Francisco Ávila and Justo López de Ams Málaga will also intervene, who will inform the importance of the exercise in the treatment of diabetes, Francisco Tinahones will talk about the real possibilities of the microbiota-a set of bacteria that live in the digestive tract-,or Javier García Alegría, who will talk about the next therapeutic advances in diabetes.

The Vithas San Antonio de Málaga Hospital was founded in 1962. Currently, it makes available to its patients a sanitary equipment composed of 90 beds and seven of the ICU, nine operating rooms, three paritoriums and 22 specialties in external consultations, together with aOperational Emergency Unit 24 hours a day 365 days a year.