The prevalence of diabetes mellitus in the country has increased to 56.7 per thousand inhabitants and, at the end of 2015, 636 231 people in Cuba suffered the disease, to which approximately 30 percent can be added 30 percent of ourPopulation, which does not know that it suffers from it, and that before a late diagnosis it must already face polyneuropathies, retinopathies, high cholesterol and other additional diseases.
With this reality, Cuba joins the celebration for World Health Day this April 7, under the slogan hurries the passof perfectly modifiable risk, continue to affect the condition of diabetes mellitus.
Dr. Ileydis Iglesias Marichal, director of the National Institute of Endocrinology, ensures that the genetic and hereditary components of each person cannot be altered, «but their lifestyle habits, among which a healthy and balanced diet and the systematic practice ofphysical exercises, which avoids the condition of other diseases too ».
Many times the schedule of the meals is disrespect and it is privileged, even in children and adolescents, the consumption of soft drinks, pizzas, breads and other foods rich in sugar, fat and flour, without assessing that with the same money used they can be guaranteedNatural juices, fruits and vegetables in the diet, he added.
Iglesias Marichal said that every woman of reproductive age should prevent obesity and arterial hypertension, as risk factors that can influence gestational diabetes during pregnancy."If the woman became pregnant without having those care, she must keep them in those nine months to avoid health problems to her baby," he insisted.
The battle against Diabetes Mellitus is won from the health area, said Iglesias Marichal, who recalled that since 1975 the National Program for Comprehensive Care to the person with this disease has been developed in the country.«In the broad network of offices and polyclinics of the country, the health promotion work must be carried out and keep those who present risk factors associated with the condition under surveillance.It is necessary to detect the foot at risk of ulcers and thus avoid the use of medicines such as Heberprot-P when the diabetic foot is a reality.
Dr. Orlando Landrove Rodríguez, head of the Department of Non -Transmissible Diseases of the Ministry of Public Health, stressed that the treatment of these ailments generates high expenses in the health system, to which the prevalence of diabetes mellitus is added in the elderly population in the elderly population60 years old, another challenge for Cuba from medical care.
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«For this reason we assume that all actions that in the day and in the rest of the year will be promoted with the objective of diagnosing people with diabetes mellitus and offer them treatment, but above all those who contribute toreduce the number of people who suffer from it ».
Dr. Iglesias Marichal said that the network of diabetic care centers maintains her constant work of education and guidance of the patient and her family, and praised projects such as coexistence and endure life and not the body, aimed at children, adolescents and young people,with those who contribute to the management of the disease and also to its prevention.
