The cases of diabetes worldwide have quadrupled since 1990. Not in vain all the attention of World Health Day 2016 was focused on the prevention and treatment of this chronic disease turned into a scourge for humanity.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 442 million adults have diabetes, that is, one in 11 people, a figure that will probably double in the next 20 years.
The worst: diabetes can cause health complications and increase the risk of premature death due to its unscrupulous association with obesity.
The figures are cruel, only in 2012 a million and a half people died in the world as a direct consequence of diabetes, mainly in low and medium income countries.
By their incidence, most scientific and medical efforts are focused on the prevention and treatment of diabetes mellitus or type 2, which represents 90% of world cases, incorporating more children in their ranks every year.
"As parents we have to be very attentive to excess thirst, abundant urine, decay of our children. Diabetes does not rest, work every day, that's why we have to report 365 days a year. It is not about diabeteslife dominates us;That has diabetes since I was a child, so he created the Pandis group (parents, adolescents and diabetic children of Salta).
In our country, one in 10 adults lives with diabetes.In other words, almost three million over 18 years of age have type 2 diabetes, mainly associated with sedentary lifestyle, poor diet and smoking.Salta does not escape these figures or the reality of an unhealthy lifestyle in general.Five years ago Villa San José became the meeting point of some 70 Salteños suffering from diabetes and that attend the community dining room "Dr. Benjamín Moreyra" that works in the neighborhood center of the neighborhood to eat the right and prevent complications.
"The neighbors of the neighborhoods have to mobilize more and more to face diabetes, there are always several in the neighborhoods that have the problem. One does not notice that he has a monster in his blood but when he hurts your foot andMilagro save you from amputating him, you get into conscience.
Type 2 diabetes is a disease that lasts a lifetime (chronic) that is defined by a high level of sugar (glucose) in the blood.Insulin is a hormone produced in the pancreas by special cells, called beta.It is necessary to move blood sugar (glucose) to cells.Within the cells, it is stored and subsequently used as a source of energy.When someone has type 2 diabetes, there is insulin resistance and blood sugar does not enter these cells as a source of energy.When sugar cannot enter cells, a high level of it accumulates in the blood, which is called hyperglycemia.
"I have diabetes 2, they detected it in August 2009, my grandmother was diabetic and my mother too, we are 4 brothers, the oldest does not have high sugar levels, it is more eate what you want and it does not rise from 80, the nextHe started with pills and then insulin and died last year with coronary problems;I criedLike never, "he said in a group of diabetics who attend the Oña Tivia de Salta hospital, Daniela, 41.
Dr. Silvia Saavedra, head of the Diabetes Area of the San Bernardo Hospital and president of the Argentine Diabetes Society Chapter Noa, said it is very difficult when the diagnosis of diabetes is given to a patient."Many cry because nobody ignores the damage that diabetes does, how it deteriorates the human being, then it is suffered. But since diabetes does not hurt, the diagnosis shock is overwhelmed and that is not good, it is at a party or in a party or inThe work with 500 glucose and nothing feels.
