The Editorial Service of the University of the Basque Country has published the 'Practical Guide for the Management of Diabetes Mellitus Type 2', a work developed through the collaboration between the UPV/EHU Faculty of Pharmacy and the Infanta Luisa Hospital in Seville.
Bilbao.Specifically, Dr. José Contreras, a member of the Endocrinology and Nutrition Service of the Infanta Luisa Hospital in Seville, and the doctors Alfredo Fernández-Quintela, Leixuri Aguirre and María Puy Portillo, of the Research Group Nutrition and Obesity of theDepartment of Pharmacy and Food Sciences of the UPV/EHU, together with members of the CIBER PHIBER PHYSIOPATHOLOGY OF OBESITY AND NUTRITION, A NETWORK BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER depending on the Carlos III Health Institute.
As explained by the Basque University, Diabetes Mellitus is a set of metabolic alterations characterized by chronic hyperglycemia, the result of failures in insulin secretion, in the effects of insulin or both.As a consequence, alterations in the metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins occur.
The severity of the symptomatology generated by diabetes mellitus depends on the type of diabetes and duration.In this case, the edited guide focuses solely on type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Although "it is difficult to know exactly what the prevalence of diabetes mellitus is in the general population", depending on the 2013 report of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in adults (peopleages between 20 and 79) is 8.5% of the world's population, which represents 382 million people (198 million are male and 184 million are women).
As indicated by the UPV/EHU, it is expected that this figure will be increased until reaching 592 million people in 2035. In Spain the prevalence varies in different areas from 6.1% to 18.7%.The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus increases with age and represents between 90 and 95% of the new cases of diagnosed diabetes.
In young people
Although at first the type 2 diabetes mellitus was considered a manifestation of the adult's own diabetes, it is currently known that it also affects children and adolescents.In this sense, the Search study, conducted in young people between 10 and 19 years, showed that in this population group the increase in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus was 30.5%, between 2001 and 2009.
The University has explained that, in these early stages of life, the appearance of type 2 diabetes mellitus is due to changes in life styles, related to sedentary lifestyle and incorrect feeding patterns.
Diabetic patients, added, generate "significant spending" since they go more frequently to the consultations of specialists and emergency services and require longer hospital stays."Hence, the importance of guides like this that allows us to spread clear ideas for the dietary and pharmacological approach to this pathology," he concluded.
