Interview with the Adiva President María Ángeles Aguado

The Adiva president, María Ángeles Aguado, also warns that thousands of adults in the region do not know that they suffer from this pathology.

A pathology that is increasing.«The epidemic of the 21st century», as defined by the president of the Valladolid Diabetes Association (Adiva), María Ángeles Aguado, by ensuring reason, that the prevalence of diabetes is increasing in the infantl population inThe last years, and even with some cases of type 2, which occurs more in adults.

Some causes that have to look for them in the current lifestyle of many families, with poor diet, lack of exercise and an increase in the overweight of the little ones.It is estimated that at this time, 15 percent of the population of Castilla y León suffer from this type of disease, and in the adult population, half of them do not know that it suffers it.

We are facing a chronic pathology and, for the moment "incurable", and that occurs because the pancreas does not secrete the insulin amount that the human body needs to develop a normal life.

"In the little ones it is easily detectable," says María Ángeles Aguado."It urinates a lot because of excess sugar in the body, there are signs of weakness and tiredness and weight loss."Treatment is an insulin injection, which parents must administer, until the child can be totally dependent to administer it for himself.In the elderly, it is no longer so easy to find, and sometimes it arrives by a simple review or accident, and is caused by obesity, sedentary lifestyle, and age.

There are two kinds of diabetes, type 1 and type 2. The first one has a greater incidence among children and young people, and in addition to not being able to prevent it, in addition to being able to be hereditary.The second appears more frequently among adults and this can be prevented.

And it is that the problems derived from the lack of adequate treatment can reverse that all the organs of the body can be affected, from the eyes, being able to cause blindness, renal and hepatic risks as well as vasculopathies.

Although it is a "historical" disease, today the causes for which the initiatives carried out by associations from all over Castilla y León are still unknown to capture funds that help those affected and forresearch projects."From Adiva we usually perform awareness workshops, open to society to know the problem and alert the dangers of this pathology," says the president of the Valladolid Association.

Another of the activities they carry out, in addition to an annual solidarity walk, through the center of Valladolid with hundreds of participants, is a summer camp, which this year will take place in July in La Coruña, where in addition to doing normal activities, alsoThey are instilled healthy habits, as well as guidelines to know how to control the disease or how the unuslin must be administered.Coexistence that is also done with adults.

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