Diabetic patients claim to the Department of Health that Aragon begins to finance the new glucose measurement systems.They remember that there are already other communities that have introduced these new technologies, which provide patients with many advantages in control and reduce complications.
Currently, about 100,000 Aragonese are diagnosed with diabetes, a disease in which blood glucose levels are higher than normal.In addition, experts estimate that, approximately, around another 2% of the population is in prediabetic stages or has not detected the disease.
Precisely, the Association of Diabetics of Zaragoza (Adezaragoza) organizes these days informative days to make known in "truthful and realistic way some of the basic aspects in the life of the person with diabetes"."There is a lot of information, but many times it is not the real one," says the entity's medical advisor, José Antonio Saz Franco, who remembers that the number of diabetics has increased over the years, but remember that type II can be prevented withhealthy lifestyle habits."People at risk of this type can reduce the possibilities of suffering it up to 60% if they bet on a healthy life," he says.
The days will also address the new technologies applied to diabetes control, which provide "multiple benefits" to patients.Among the new devices, a kind of patches that are put on the arm or abdomen and that allow a continuous measurement of glucose levels."In some communities they have already been introduced, for example for children under 18, and in others they are being promoted," says Saz, who recognizes that the Aragonese department of Health expressed their willingness to bet on new technologies, but for nowHe has not taken the step.
The medical advisor admits that although initially these new technologies can lead to a greater initial disbursement by the administration, in the long term they involve saving.Remember that with better disease control complications are reduced and, consequently, health spending.There are fewer revenues or hospital care, for example.At the moment, some patients are financing the new devices themselves.
The Zaragoza Diabetics Association has also taken advantage of these days to denounce some situations that they consider "discriminatory."Remember that there are still official oppositions in which diabetic people are excluded."These are laws of 35 years and you have to change them. Everyone is aware of this and is trying to solve," says the entity's advisor.
Informative Conference
The talks and workshops, which are held until tomorrow in the courtyard of the Infanta de Zaragoza, began yesterday with the talk 'Why is the control of diabetes so difficult?'Huesca.
Today the psycho-social issue will be addressed with the conference ‘How to live with diabetes and not die at the attempt’, by the clinical psychologist Javier Hurtado Núñez.This diabetes expert will talk about what it is daily to live with diabetes and how the environment can help overcome moments of frustration, fear or fatigue.
Tomorrow, it will be the turn of the investigation.Anna Novials Sardá, president of the Spanish Diabetes Society and director of a research group at the Biomedical Research Institute, will give the conference: ‘Research in Diabetes: where we are and where we are going’.
"You can lead a normal life"
Maria Rasal, 39, diagnosed with type II diabetes with only 28. It was in a routine visit to the endocrine and after blood analysis that did not square.
Behind himInitial shock and two years of control with pills, gradually adapt to needles, punctures, measurements in each meal ... "to such an extent that you do it by inertia and do it in an almost automatic way," says thisAdministrative, which acknowledges that it has a genetic predisposition, but had not detected any previous symptoms that made it suspect.
Although "logically" something changes day to day, he says he can lead a "normal life", taking care of himself a little and following healthy habits.In fact, next month, he plans to leave for a week to make the Camino de Santiago."To walk a lot!" Maria jokes.
