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Read MoreCampaign for the early detection and prevention of diabetes from the Office of pharmacy.
Рinvolved more than one hundred of pharmacists of Granada, Cordoba, Huelva, Ja̩n and Ciudad Real
-Is an initiative of the University of Granada, in collaboration with the Spanish society of community pharmacy (SEFAC), colleges of pharmacists and physicians and the support of the Club of the pharmacy of Almirall
-through one simple puncture on the finger you can detect cases of type 2 diabetes
– between 30 and 50 percent of people with diabetes in Spain they ignore his disease
Madrid, 2011-November in Spain, it is estimated that you between 30 and 50% of people with type 2 diabetes mellitus ignored her illness. Early detection and immediate treatment to achieve optimal glycaemic control in early stages of the disease gives a long-term benefit in reduction of morbidity and mortality that can be reversed in a major breakthrough in public health and health resources saving. Perform an opportunistic screening in the offices of pharmacy to identify people of high risk of developing diabetes is the goal of the campaign for early detection and prevention of diabetes: study DiabNow.
This study is an initiative of the research group in care pharmaceutical of the University of Granada (GIAF-UGR) which helped the Spanish society of community pharmacy (SEFAC) as well as pharmaceutical and medical schools in the five provinces where the campaign unfolds. All this with the support of the Club of the pharmacy of Almirall, entity collaborating with projects of innovation within the pharmaceutical profession emerged, as in this case, of the University level.
The campaign has just been put in place and involved more than 100 community pharmacists of the Spanish provinces of Granada, Cordoba, Huelva, Jaén and Ciudad Real. He is to sensitize the population with risk factors for developing diabetes about the importance of early detection. They may as well take preventive measures and receive tips and instructions to facilitate a healthy lifestyle in order to delay the onset and progression of the disease. Detection from the community of possible cases of diabetes type 2 hidden pharmacy will take place through a simple puncture on the finger. A drop of blood that will make it possible to quantify the value of glycosylated hemoglobin, which is a measure of chronic Hyperglycemia is thus removed.
Each pharmacist will get and will include a total of ten patients. You can participate in the study any person to go to the Office of the Pharmacy and, after collecting the personal data and check that it complies with the requirements, the pharmacy professional held a series of questions based on the test of risk of Diabetes from the American the Diabetes Association (ADA) which allows to quantify the risk. Patients who join a certain amount of points in the test will be selected to enter the DiabNow study and it will offer the possibility to perform the diagnostic test.
Type 2 diabetes
Diabetes is a disease characterized by a disturbance of the metabolism of the hydrates of carbon, defined by the chronic hyperglycemia and its long-term nature micro complications and macrovascular.
Type 2 diabetes accounts for 90-95% of all cases of diabetes. Characterized by a relative failure, rather than absolute, insulin and a resistance to its action. usually appear in adult life, over 40 years and does not always need treatment with insulin.
The risk of developing this form of diabetes increases with age, weight, and lack of exercise, being more frequent in obese hypertensive patients and people with high cholesterol.
Almirall
Almirall is an international pharmaceutical company based on innovation and committed to health. With headquarters in Barcelona (Spain), Almirall researches, develops, produces and sells drugs own r & d and licensing with the aim of improving the health and well-being of people.
The therapeutic areas in which concentrates its resources in research are related to the treatment of asthma, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), gastrointestinal disorders, psoriasis and other skin complaints forms.
Almirall drugs are currently present in over 70 countries. It has direct presence in Europe and Latin America through 12 subsidiaries.
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The Association Parkinson Madrid brings together most affected patients with youth volunteers in an excursion to the sierra
– will take place next Saturday, September 17, where some thirty affected párkinson will visit the natural pools of RascafrÃa and the monastery of El Paular, aided by several volunteers from the young man Madrid Rotaract Club
– is a pioneering initiative with people affected by párkinson with mobility problems
Madrid, 2011-September the Association Parkinson Madrid has organized for next Saturday, September 17, an intergenerational encounter between párkinson patients affected with a group of young volunteers belonging to the Club Rotaract Madrid young. The activity will consist of a trip to the monastery of SantamarÃa de El Paular, a visit to the natural pools of RascafrÃa and a typical meal at a restaurant in Torrelaguna. Several young people, aged between 25 and 30 years, will help to move, will exchange experiences and share this fun day with nearly of some thirty affected párkinson, 65, who are more advanced this neurodegenerative disease in phaseswith mobility problems or in a wheelchair.
This first experience of leisure, pioneer in Spain, aims to ensure that persons with párkinson in the later stages of the disease have the opportunity to enjoy an excursion with young volunteers. The beneficiaries of this activity are very isolated people generally and are in a situation of loneliness in their homes for months. Such activities are often organized with collective more young people, who have a condition of permanent disability and who have internalized the wheelchair as essential tool in your life. For the affected párkinson, these problems of movement are sign of despair, because that is a sign of the continued progression of the disease that are.
To sociación Parkinson Madrid
La Association Parkinson Madrid is a non-profit entity, declared of public utility by the Ministry of the Interior, established to meet, Orient, train and inform people about Parkinson’s disease, their families and/or caregivers, professionals and society in general. Currently it has over 1,500 members and 100 volunteers. Services and therapies offered include: physiotherapy, speech therapy, massage, rehabilitation in swimming-pool, social care, health guidance, psychological care, music therapy, organization of self-help groups, organization of medical conferences, training professionals, carers and people in general, support for studies and research, and celebrations of leisure and free time activities.
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PSN launches its new guide of the mutualist.
letter for those who are incorporated into the entity.
Spain, may of 2011. Forecasting health national (PSN) has released a new version of its guide of mutualist, corporate document that aims to explain in detail and the most up-to-date way all the advantages that it is part of PSN, presenting the mutual products and services that offer the rest of the Group’s companies to meet the needs of the new mutual.
The new mutualist Guide, whose first edition was produced in 1999, is divided into headings that offer information about different aspects. The bulk of the publication is dedicated to PSN products, as well as the various value-added services that offers group: computer services, systems of management quality, nursery schools, residences for the elderly, and so on.
The first of the headings of the guide offers an introductory view of the group, its history, its legal structure and its main economic magnitudes. There is also a section which is available on a listing of offices in Spain and Portugal, their location and contact telephone number, and other media for mutualists: website, magazine PSNInformación and the PSNotas newsletter. Also, you have some questions that most often formulated mutualists and includes a glossary of investment and insurance terminology
On the other hand, PSN has also published a new corporate brochure, aimed specifically at institutions that traditionally collaborated entity: professional bodies, associations, clinics, companies, etc. This document, due to the information needs of their recipients, is a guide for the presentation of the group, which emphasizes their results. Its aim is to present the activity of the entity with a view to possible agreements of collaboration.
Club catalogue PSN
PSN has also released a new edition of the catalogue of the PSN Club, corresponding to the spring-summer of 2011, which offers a wide variety of offers training, gastronomic and leisure under special conditions for the mutual. In addition to the traditional gourmet lots and of training courses aimed at professionals, on this occasion is bet by some activities especially designed for the children and grandchildren of mutualists: summer camps, with stays in Spain and abroad. As well as being a playful alternative to the summer vacation, these camps are designed to enable children to acquire knowledge of English
Was born the “Club cardiosaludable Riojano”, an initiative of Hospital Viamed Los Manzanos in collaboration with the Fundación Caja Rioja.
Logroño, 2011-January the head of culture of the Caja Rioja Foundation, Carmen Fernández, and the Communications Director of the Viamed group, Concepción Roussel, presented yesterday, Monday, January 17, the “Club Cardiosaludable Riojano”, a monthly event for people interested in cardiovascular health which took place at the Centre Cultural Caja Rioja-Gran VÃacoordinated by the cardiologist Julio Martinez Florez and will feature the regular collaboration of clinical psychologist Rosa MarÃa Hidalgo.
The objective is to promote a meeting place for patients and people interested in information on the prevention of cardiovascular disease but by suffering from first-person, or have affected families and to prevent the consequences of a disease that causes more mortality in industrialized countries. The first event will take place today, Tuesday, January 18, at 19.30 hours, which will be discussed on the ‘ percutaneous aortic prosthesis. A hope for the future ’, in charge of the cardiovascular surgeon Ignacio Gallo, Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery and hemodynamics of the Hospital Viamed Los Manzanos service.
The doctor will speak about one of the most innovative techniques in the cardiovascular surgery for the establishment of prosthetics without having to resort to traditional surgery and that he used with great success recently to introduce an aortic prosthesis to a Riojan of 84 years in Hospital Viamed Los Manzanos. This type of intervention with latest generation material and have started to apply is barely a year, they are very costly economically and indicated in patients, but by old age or other medical circumstances, is not suitable riding traditional intervention.
The rest of meetings of the ‘ Club cardiosaludable Riojano ’, only in La Rioja, are the days of February 1, February 8, March 15, March 29 and April 5 and it shall be composed of lectures and workshops. The conferences, as well as classrooms, will have a sign language interpreter to facilitate accessibility for people with hearing disabilities to them.
In La Rioja, if we analyse the mortality by age, we note that cardiovascular diseases are among the three leading causes of death in the age group of 45 to 54 years, men, and from 65 to 74 years for women. After 75 years, these diseases occupy first place in both sexes.
According to the latest study published on the risk factors in La Rioja, is 50 per cent of diagnosed patients do not adequately control their life habits. Thus emerges from the study by 56.4% showed values colesterolemia high (61% male, 52 per cent women); 46.3% had high blood pressure (53.4% male and 32.4 per cent women); they were smoking 31.8% (39% men and 25% women) and almost half the population was sedentary, being more this situation in women (61%) than men (42%). 12.3% Of the women and 13.5 per cent of men had obesity. The autonomous community of La Rioja, according to data from the national survey, more than the national average in childhood obesity and overweight in adulthood.
At least 36.9% of the population had a modifiable risk factor. Because of the ageing of the population and the persistence of risk factors, morbidity and mortality for a cardiovascular episode will increase over the coming decades, according to experts. And despite the knowledge of cardiovascular risk factors various studies show that the control of them is far from optimal.
Currently, the Caja Rioja Foundation and Hospital Viamed Los Manzanos develop monthly the ‘ health classroom ’, with the goal of making clear the commitment of these two institutions with the Riojan society and their health; bring health professionals to the people in an environment more close and direct; wake up and increase in Rioja the concern for the care and prevention of health information.
The cycle, which this year celebrates its third edition, is made up of eight conference scheduled for September 2010 to April 2011, and covers subjects as diverse and interesting as flu in chronic illness, children and TV, sleep apnea, Gynecologic Cancer, diabetes and eye, life after heart surgery, plastic surgery or the importance of stepping well.
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