More than a thousand specialists meet in Barcelona at the Diabetes Congress

More than a thousand specialists will participate next week in the XXVIII National Congress of the Spanish Diabetes Society that will be held in Barcelona to analyze and discuss the progress and future of this disease, which affects 13.8% of the population, the population,Although half does not know.

The National Diabetes Congress, which will begin on Wednesday 5 and will end on Friday 7, is, according to its organizers, the main scientific appointment on diabetes, where they will be addressed from the most current basic research to the clinical problems that are recorded with greaterfrequency in care practice.

The results of clinical trials related to new diagnostic and therapeutic resources will also be presented, and will review from different angles, the present and, above all, the future of diabetes, a disease that grows in the world.

With the participation not only of Spanish specialists but also of some of the most reputed international experts, Congress will be, according to the Spanish Diabetes Society, "the best forum for the exchange of scientific information between professionals who are dedicated to the field of diabetesin Spain ".

The Congress will congregate endocrinologists, educators, family doctors, pediatricians, cardiologists, podians, gynecologists, ophthalmologists and all specialists involved in the complications of diabetes, in addition to researchers who work in search of advances in the knowledge and treatment ofThe disease.

As the organizers have advanced, this time they will address as outstanding issues and among others, the cardiovascular implications of diabetes, an issue that will focus the inaugural conference by Dr. Amanda I. Adler of the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom).

Specialists will also analyze the current situation of research on regeneration and protection of the beta cells of the pancreas, producers of insulin, with a view to better control of the disease and a possible healing.

The impact of diabetes on gonadal or pernicious interconnection between diabetes and obesity, will be other issues provided in Congress, which will also analyze the incidence of type 1 diabetes in pediatric age, as well as the present and futureof the beta cell transplant in the DM1.

Congress has also reserved a hole to address other less known aspects related to the disease, such as the role that humor and empathy can have in diabetological education and diabetes therapy.

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