2024-04-19 23:49:59
(ANSA) – TARANTO, APRIL 19 – The prevalence of diabetes in Puglia is 7.6%, higher than the Italian average, where it stands at 6.6% of the population. Again in Puglia, the rate of childhood obesity and the mortality rate of men and women are also higher than average. However, the rate of hospitalization for complications, therefore renal, circulatory system and brain, has been reduced. These are the data that emerged this morning during the press conference presenting the national conference ‘Diabets and unmet needs – everything that studies don’t say’, organized by Feder Diabetici Puglia and sponsored, among others, by the Navy, which is hosting it today and tomorrow in the auditorium of the Mar Grande naval base in Taranto.
The opening of the works was entrusted to the greeting of the division admiral Giacinto Sciandra. During the conference it was underlined that “the data from Puglia are rather alarming and destined to grow in a country that has recorded an increase of +14% since 2019, equal to 400 thousand more cases”.
Paolo Stella, head of the Pharmaceuticals section of the Health Department of the Puglia Region, announced “a project starting imminently, to be completed in 2024, intended to intercept the undeclared economy”.
According to Cosimo Tortorella, director of the Internal Medicine department of the Taranto hospital, “bad eating habits and a sedentary lifestyle, even in pediatric age, are the causes of the increase”.
Paola Boldrini, vice president of the Parliamentary Intergroup on Diabetes, Obesity and Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases, pointed out that “early diagnoses, speed of taking charge, taking charge in a multidisciplinary manner are needed. And certainly targeted awareness-raising aimed at schools, with particular attention to the transition from childhood/adolescence to adulthood”. (HANDLE).
2024-04-19 23:49:59