The primary care of the Catalan Institute of Health (ICS) has begun to apply a program to delay the appearance of type 2 diabetes in people at risk of suffering from the disease, as reported in a statement.
Diabetes Prevention Transferring Findings from European Research to Society (DP-Transfers) is a group intervention project that pretends that people at risk of suffering the disease "adopt healthy habits, especially a good diet and the performance of physical exercise."
A total of 109 health centers have already joined the initiative, which includes patient monitoring to "know the risk and receive, near home, information and health education", and that is completely operational in90 of them.
The initiative has had the participation of more than 500 professionals, who have selected 2,000 people with a high risk of suffering diabetes, of which more than 1,500 are already doing group activities to be able to adapt their lifestyle and delay or delay or preventThe appearance of the disease.
The DP-Transfers project implies "the translation of research to clinical practice", and has its origin in the De-Plan-Cat program, which demonstrated in 2012 and for the first time in Europe, "that an intensive intervention on stylelife reduces substantially, with an acceptable cost, the incidence of type 2 diabetes in patients with risk. "
The DP-Transfers project has two phases: a first one, which lasts six weeks, in which it is proposedto accompany them in the change process.
Diabetes is a health problem that entails an anomalous increase in blood glucose and it is estimated that in Catalonia there are 600,000 people who suffer from it.
According to data from the Health Survey of Catalonia (ESCA) of 2016, this disease affects 8.1 % of the population of 15 and over (8 % of men and 8.2 % of women).
According to the International Diabetes Federation, up to 80 % of the new cases of diabetes mellitus 2 can be prevented or delayed with changes in life styles, modifying food and practicing moderate exercise.
Under the motto "Diabetes and Women, for the right to a healthy future", today the World Diabetes Day is commemorated, which wants to increase awareness about the growing prevalence of diabetes, especially type 2.
