seven out of ten type 2 diabetics do not have optimal control of their disease
70 percent of the more than 3.5 million Spaniards suffering from type 2 diabetes do not have an optimal control of their disease, both sugar levels and hemoglobin, as the president of the Spanish Society of General Physicians stressed todayand Family (SEMG), Benjamin Abarca, within the framework of the presentation of the presentation of the course 'What attitude to the diabetic patient type 2'.
The care of type 2 diabetes is not only about monitoring their blood glucose, but also of maintainThe appearance of possible complications.
In the hospitable field, they are only responsible for type 1 diabetics in insulin treatment and some type 2 cases so, although "it is not necessary to seek guilty" of this lack of control, Dr. Abarca insisted on the importance of doctorsPrimary care in diabetes care since they are responsible for controlling these patients in 90 percent of cases.
In his opinion, the role of these professionals must focus on promoting healthy lifestyle habits and monitoring that patients meet the treatment.As added by the coordinator of the Cardiovascular Group of SEMG, Carlos Miranda, the therapeutic breach is a handicap in these patients, which "in many cases should be taken up to eight pills a day."
However, and although adherence to treatment and assume the disease and everything that entails "requires time and effort", the patient must be "responsible for his illness and assume the changes" that are necessary in order to avoid worsening.
Similarly, this expert assumed, by health professionals there is also a "therapeutic inertia" that hinders a change in pharmacological guidelines.Therefore, he asked that from the administration and scientific societies bet on "fighting with the best weapons" in the face of a disease that is in continuous increase.
Overflowing forecasts
World forecasts on the progress of this disease have been "far" nowMiranda
Therefore, and because of the influence that diabetes has on cerebrovascular diseases and ischemic heart disease-the two main causes of death in Spain-, from this society they are committed to accelerating the development of the National Health Strategy in Diabetes of the System of the SystemNational Health (SNS) to improve the approach to complications and special situations, and training, research and innovation in diabetes.
