The problems of the diabesidad are not only the responsibility of medicine; The fight and prevention of it requires the collaboration of multidisciplinary working groups.

-According to recent data from 2011, in Andalusia there is a prevalence of 16% in diabetes, and 34% of obesity, in both cases at the head of Spain

-the main challenge in the treatment of diabetic patients is to lose weight

Madrid, January 2012.- the Union of diabetes and obesity (diabesidad) is currently experiencing a significant increase. Factors which have influenced its development are derivatives of the habits and customs of Western life, such as limited physical exercise, intake increased and, above all, changes in the quality of the same (few fruits and vegetables, and many refined sugars and saturated fats).

In the words of the DRA. Carmen Maroto, President of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Eastern Andalusia according to the latest data from the 2011 Andalusia there is a prevalence of 16% in diabetes, and 34% of obesity, in both cases at the head of Spain ”.

The consequences are numerous and cover a large number of alterations. In summary form, we can say that the commonest pathology is the cardiovascular, featuring hypertension, Hyperlipidemia, myocardial infarction, stroke, peripheral artery disease, etc. But in addition, obesity can lead to problems of overload articulate and, of course, mobility ”, adds Dr. Maroto.

The Royal Academy of Medicine of Eastern Andalusia has, among its numerous objectives to comply, carrying out discussions in depth on the medical issues of utmost importance because of its prevalence and impact on society. Among them, it is clear that the increase in diabetes and its association with obesity, is an issue that remains a serious concern. Therefore, in order to address this topic has organized with the collaboration of the AstraZeneca Foundation course Diabesidad: new perspectives for an old disease ”.

Our main goal is transmit the current state of the item and create the concern needed to be able to resolve questions and problems. To this end, the course has a great group of speakers, real experts, that will take all their knowledge to doctors, graduates and students in health sciences, pharmacy, nutrition and dietetics ”, explains the DRA. Maroto.

Challenges of the treatment of diabetes obesity control-oriented

Psychopathological aspects of the patient with diabetes and obesity, there are various alterations of historical nature of the patient within which the most important are: the dissatisfaction felt by patients for their awareness of disease because of the chronicity and evolution inexorable if there is a continuous treatment, and the consecutive issues to different morbidities appearing partner, able to condition their vital development in a clear manner.

With regard to the challenges of diabetes treatment aimed at control of obesity, explains Dr. Maroto are several, but perhaps the most important is to try to get that diabetic patients lose weight. This fact is difficult, because we must again stress that it is a long process and the conduct of mission subsistence allowance for a long time are monotonous and boring for the sick. On the other hand, the majority of the treatments available for diabetes can lead to an increase in weight, it would be desirable to have therapies that obviaran this problem ”.

This approach entails a whole series of measures which, many of them, according to the DRA. Maroto should begin preventive form with the teaching of food education since childhood, within the family ”

would be required in the realization of protected physical exercise programs, and with a suitable follow-up. also is also key awareness and awareness from the general population that obesity is not something banal and unimportant, but that constitutes a true disease. So for example, should be eliminated bad habits and easy access to products that favor these pathologies ”.

The diabesidad problems are not only the responsibility of medicine, but for the fight and prevention of it needed the collaboration of multidisciplinary working groups, as it has been raised in the agenda of this course ”, concludes Dr. Maroto.

On the AstraZeneca Foundation

The AstraZeneca Foundation is a not-for-profit organization, created to support both to practitioners of medicine and research in their different fields, as well as to promote the modernization of the Spanish health structure to cooperate in the area of health. All this with the goal of achieving an improvement in the quality of life of citizens.

The main activities developed by the Foundation are structured on the basis of six blocks: clinical research, training continued, dependence, forums for discussion and analysis of health policy studies, training/information to patients in various pathologies and awards and scholarships.