Cataluña, 13 of 100,000 Catalans have type 1 diabetes

The rate of new cases of type 1 diabetes each year in Catalunya is in the middle, and currently affects 13 of every 100,000 Catalans, this being particularly common type in children and young people, according to a study by the Eurodiab – ‘Europe and Diabetes ‘–.

In Catalonia, the annual increase is lower compared to other years and countries, but currently there are 1923 patients with this disease, according to a communique from the Ministry of Health of the Generalitat.

The incidence rate in Catalonia is much lower in some countries of northern Europe, but it is similar to that of Western countries. Furthermore, the increase in cases is the lowest in the study, with a tendency towards stabilization.

The report shows that there is an inverse relationship between the baseline incidence of the disease and the increase in new cases. Ie countries with high incidence of childhood diabetes cases have increased so that more countries with a lower baseline incidence.

According to the endocrinologist at the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona Albert Goday no effective prevention strategies to avoid the appearance of this disease, unlike type 2 diabetes, with control and prevention programs by the Ministry.

Type 1 diabetes accounts for between 6 and 8 percent of people with diabetes in Catalonia, with type 2 over the majority. The first requires treatment with insulin since the onset of the disease.

According to experts, the type 1 is due to a complex interplay of factors, especially genetic and exposure to environmental phenomena. This is a “clear base makes the auto body, through its system of defenses, destroy its own pancreatic B cells – responsible for producing insulin -.

More than 10 million people in Europe have diabetes, a disease that affects the production of insulin in the body and alters the metabolism of sugars. Some people develop in adulthood, especially those with a sedentary lifestyle or obesity – is the type 2 –.

At European level, the incidence rate ranges from 10.3 cases per 100,000 population and 52.6 per 100,000, increasing in the younger age groups.

Specifically, the disease grows 3.9 percent annually and predicts that if the trend continues, the juvenile diabetes – which affects children under five years – will double between 2005 and 2020. The population under 15 years affected by the disease will increase by 70 percent.

The study estimated that the number of new cases in 2005 was 15,000, distributed among all age brackets, and predicts that by 2020 there will be 160,000 cases in Europe.

The Generalitat has the Type 1 Diabetes Registry of Catalonia launched in 1987, unique in Spain, to which all hospitals regularly data on the new cases detected.

The study, published today in the journal ‘The Lancet’, involving 17 European countries and reviews of this sort of illness between 1989 and 2003. Moreover, he predicts will be the situation between 2005 and 2020.

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