The day will be held next Wednesday, day 16, and will address the clinical utility of the new basal insulins as well as the role of insulinotherapy within the patient treatment guides with diabetes mellitus type 2

More than a hundred professionals will discuss at the Central University Hospital of Asturias how to improve the treatment of diabetes, a disease that affects 14% of the population and that in Asturias present, at least, one third of hospitalized patients.

Organized by the services of endocrinology and nutrition and vascular surgery of the HUCA, the day will be held next Wednesday, the 16Patient with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

One of the most invalidating complications is the diabetic foot condition.70% of the 200 amputations of extremities recorded in Asturias occur precisely in diabetic people.