One in two deaths of people with type 2 diabetes is due to cardiovascular disease, as stated from the 'Esdiabetes campaign, take it seriously' (promoted by Alianza Boehringer Ingelheim and Lilly into diabetes), which makes this type ofdiseases in the main cause of death among this group.
However, people with diabetes can do a lot to avoid deterioration of their health, "since studies indicate that patient support and their involvement in the self -care of the disease is crucial to reduce the risk of long -term complications", they have explained.
Therefore, on the occasion of World Health Day, the 'Esdiabetes campaign, seriously, has launched a motivational video, available on the' website '' www.esdiabetes.org ', "to promote people with diabetes to integrateThe sooner the care of his illness in his daily life, "they have indicated.The video shows, from the positive point of view, what a patient would do if he can return to the past and correct the bad habits that have led them to suffer some complications of the disease in the present.
The member of the Diabetes/Obesity Group of the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine (SEMI), Dr. Ricardo Gómez strikes, explained that "the control of blood glucose (blood sugar levels) and other risk factors such asArterial hypertension, must be early and start before these complications appear.
The recommendation of experts is that people with diabetes are progressively acquiring habits that, although they can initially mean an effort, end up becoming practically automatic tasks.
"The exercise and diet are the fundamental pillars in the treatment of this type of diabetes, and in some cases these measures are sufficient to control blood glucose. The healthy diet, the order in meals, the half hour of exercise, the shotsof medication, the care of the feet, they must be habits as rooted in the day to day as it is to put on the pajamas and brush their teeth before bedtime, "they have advised.
Poorly controlled diabetes
"The patient with diabetes has a high risk of cardiovascular diseases (chest angina, myocardial infarction, stroke), first, by diabetes itself but also because these patients usually have obesity, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia," he saidThe semi expert.
On the other hand, poorly controlled diabetes produces damage to multiple organs and systems of the human body in addition to the large and small blood vessels of the organism."It is the main cause of blindness, non -traumatic amputation of lower limbs and advanced renal disease in need of dialysis," explained Dr. Gómez strikes.
