70 kilometers for diabetes

The V route of the sentries connected Torrevieja and Cartagena to "make visible" diabetes.

Everything collected is destined to a foundation that supports research to find a cure.

Torrevieja and Cartagena were closer to usual through the Sentinelas route, which for the fifth consecutive year congregated to the diabetes to make a 70 -kilometer route running with the aim of giving visibility to this disease.

The president of the Association of Diabetics of Cartagena y Regionmake diabetes visible and demonstrate that you can do what you want with your life, that diabetes does not prevent you.

In total there were five people who managed to fulfill the full tour, since the majority of participants were joining by sections within this route that crossed the municipalities of Torrevieja, Orihuela, Pilar de la Horadada, San Pedro del Pinatar, San Javier, theAlcazares and La Unión, finally reaching the goal in the Punic wall of Cartagena.Some more were added to the point of arrival and the 'Finish' photo was with a dozen people, several of them incorporated at the height of the Union.

Glucose monitors for all

Garcia added that, in this fifth edition, "there has also been a message, which has been to ask for continuous glucose monitors for all."It details that "in our region children between 4 and 18 years have been given, and we are very happy for it, but we want all sensors to be extended and all who form the type 1 diabetes collective."

And it is that the control of blood glucose in this disease is key to acting and maintaining a better standard of living.To do this, technology has a very relevant role and is putting in our hands various devices that allow such control in a continuous and, therefore, much more adjusted way.They are the continuous glucose monitors and the flash system.

As explained by the president of Sodicar, "all the collection of the race goes to the Diabetes Zero Foundation, which fights for the investigation of a cure for type 1 diabetes.""It will not be much, but all contribution is good," he concludes.

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