Diabetes is responsible for 20% of the stroke and multiplies the risk of suffering it by two

Two out of three people with diabetes dies from vascular disease, stroke or heart attack and, specifically, this pathology is responsible for up to 20% of the strokes and multiplies the risk to be suffered by two, as revealed duringThe presentation of the 'ICTUS Y DIABETES' campaign, of the CERE TO THE ICTUS Foundation.

In addition, although there are more cases of diabetes in men than in women, these have a 30% risk of suffering a stroke than men.Likewise, people with diabetes have a higher risk of recurrence of stroke and worse prognosis, generating more mortality and more disability, as experts have expressed during the act, where representatives of collaborating organizations have also been present, namely Spanish societyof Neurology (SEN), Spanish Society of Diabetes (SED), Spanish Society of Primary Care Physicians (Semergen) and Spanish Diabetes Federation (Fede).

In this sense, Fede's manager, Mercedes Maderuelo, has insisted that "eight people out of ten do not know how to distinguish what diabetes is, so it is important to raise awareness of society about the possibility of preventing most diabetes, carrying healthy lifestyle. ""If you don't act before diabetes, you can have long -term complications, it is very important to inform and train," he said.

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On the other hand, the doctor of the Endocrinology and Nutrition Service at the La Paz University Hospital and Secretary of the SED, Noemí González Pérez de Villar, has expressed the importance of "not forgetting to make a review a year to measure the glucose, because ifYou have diabetes and it is known from the beginning, it is possible not to have any future complication. "

For its part, the head of the Neurology Section of the La Paz University Hospital and a member of the study of cerebrovascular diseases of the SEN, Blanca Fuentes Gimeno, stressed that "the stroke goes much further, it is not a cardiovascular complicationAssociated with the heart, we talk about brain, a disease associated with the brain, and people with diabetes must protect the brain to prevent stroke, detecting and treating diabetes in time. "

Finally, the family doctor at the Dr. Castroviejo Health Center and a member of the Semergen Diabetes Working Group, María Paz Pérez Unanua, explained that during the confinement a deterioration of the glycemic control of the patients has been observed."We have noticed that many people have self-expended from the health system for fear of going to hospitals. Patients should take into account that these revisions should not be overlooked" and, in this sense, he has encouraged "all thePeople with diabetes to follow a healthy lifestyle as the best tool to reduce the risk of stroke. "

Thus, the Foundation is in collaboration with the organizations already indicated and the sponsorship of Bayer, promotes the 'ICTUS and Diabetes' campaign with the aim of raising awareness of society about these two pathologies, the importance of leading healthy lifestyle habits forprevent them and the importance of control and therapeutic adhesion and treatment in diabetes patients.

The campaign is composed of various audiovisual materials, among which an informative video stands out in which the conductive thread takes Brainy (the disseminating character of the brake to the stroke);Graphic pieces for social networks and informative graphic material, which will be distributed by the different participating organizations through their different communication channels.

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