This Saturday the I Popular Race and Walk for Diabetes in the Jardines del Turia.Diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema are visual diseases that are associated with this ailment.For this reason, the prestigious Bavaria clinic collaborates in the test and will perform free retinographies.

With the clear objective of combating the infradiagnosis of diabetes and raising awareness about the importance of a correct treatment of the same, the Diabetes Foundation and the Spanish Society of Primary Care Physicians organize this first race and popular walk for Valencia Diabetes of Valencia.

The risk of blindness is 10 times higher in a diabetic person since certain visual problems derived from diabetes, such as diabetic retinopathy or diabetic macular edema, are among the main causes of blindness in developed countries.Given this fact, from the medical community, the importance of making checks that allow to detect this ailment and thus reduce the high level of late diagnosis is noticed.They also recommend people with diabetes to undergo periodic ophthalmological reviews that allow the early diagnosis of visual diseases associated with this pathology.