Sardinia will have the regional register of diabetic disease
Unanimous approval in the classroom
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Sardinia will also have its own regional diabetic disease registry. The request for its establishment had been presented on the proposal of Rossella Pinna, regional councilor of the Democratic Party, and of the entire democratic group and also signed in the classroom by the opposition, and was approved by the vote of all the minority and majority political forces.
"After the initial resistance - explains a note - by the majority and the council with councilor Nieddu, who asked for time for further information by postponing the discussion on the register up to article 28, the classroom unanimously accepted the proposal of the establishment of the regional register of diabetic disease. It is a fundamental tool for the study and understanding of the reasons why the disease is a disease so present in Sardinia, so much so that it is the second region in Europe, after Finland, for spread of Type 1 diabetes, and probably also for type 2 diabetes mellitus ”.
On the island there are about 120 thousand patients and about 120 are the new diagnoses of type 1 per year, those for type 2 diabetes are constantly increasing. "A disease - continues the document - which certainly has an autoimmune origin and of which it is important to investigate the reasons and the complexity. We know that type 2 diabetes is a multifactorial pathology and that it is significantly affected by incorrect lifestyles, poor education in prevention and physical activity ".
"A pathology - he concludes - that if investigated can be better known, controlled and postponed. The establishment of the regional register represents for these reasons a result expected for years by diabetic doctors, scientific societies and patient associations, because it allows an indispensable tool as well as necessary to study the disease, highly widespread in our island. The epidemiological monitoring of diabetes and its complications will improve assistance and will be the guiding and control tool for prevention and treatment policies. and assistance and expenditure efficiency for the benefit of patients' quality of life ".
(Unioneonline / ss)