The community of Madrid has a rate of diabetes lower than the national average.

-Fernández-Lasquetty opened the day prevention of diabetes, a priority in public health ”

Madrid, November of 2011- the Counselor of health, Javier Fernández-Lasquetty, opened the day Diabetes Prevention, a priority in public health ”, organized by the directorate general of primary care to commemorate World Diabetes Day. It is estimated that about 400,000 people over 30 years living in the community of Madrid are diagnosed diabetes, which means a prevalence of 6% (although it is estimated that 2% is more undiagnosed), a percentage significantly lower than the national average, which lies between the 5,6 and 10%.

During his speech, the Director of health stressed that to combat diabetes, particularly type 2, the main weapon is prevention, through a more healthy and balanced diet and increased physical activity, without forgetting the screening, that sometimes this disease does not give symptoms until stadiums advanced already emerging severe complications ”.

On the day we have analyzed the most relevant data about diabetes, a disease that grows in a manner parallel to obesity and it affecting increasingly younger population, focusing in particular on the prevention of this disease, from screening to one that can develop during pregnancy, gestational diabetes. Among the measures of prevention, has stressed the need to maintain a proper lifestyle, with a proper diet and exercise in a moderate way.

Control and prevention of disease in primary health care the Ministry of health, primary care health centers, focuses on prevention diabetes just promoting a healthy lifestyle since childhood, from food, through the prevention of smoking and passing through the prevention of physical inactivity and obesityespecially in the early years of life, and in adults, with systematic weight control and routine control of sugar in blood every year, from 45.

The health centres in the community of Madrid carried out in 2010 a medical follow-up 330.344 people over the age of 14-diagnosed diabetes. Health centres are in addition to regular medical controls diabetics, workshops of health education to promote self-care once the disease is diagnosed, addressing several of the pathology aspects, from the care of the feet to the exercise or diet.

The community of Madrid has the lowest mortality rate from diabetes Spain. so, this rate in the community of Madrid is 5,91 deaths per 100,000 population against 12,31 deaths of average national.