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How does type 2 diabetes affect the different systems of the body, such as the cardiac, renal and metabolic?

How are they related to each other and how a complication in one of them can cause the other systems to fail?

How does type 2 diabetes affect your relationship with your partner, with friends, with neighbors?

These questions are answered in

Interconnected

, a documentary to discuss the connections in type 2 diabetes and the importance of managing this chronic disease. The audiovisual has been based on the experiences of people with this chronic pathology and is available on YouTube. It has been sponsored by the Diabetes Alliance, an initiative of Boehringer Ingelheim and Lilly in the framework of World Diabetes Day, celebrated on November 14.

Paz Gómez del Valle, from the Spanish Diabetes Federation (FEDE), emphasizes that the documentary "is fantastic, because

the protagonists perfectly show the habits of life, how our body works and how one system interacts with the other

. It is very necessary Especially since the ailments of people with type 2 diabetes are often not taken seriously. "

"This initiative is very important because it shows how patient involvement is necessary to achieve good health outcomes, as the documentary shows," adds Dr. Javier Díez Espino, president of the Foundation Network of Study Groups on Diabetes in Primary Care Health (redGDPS).

Type 2 diabetes is a silent disease.

Dr. Antonio Pérez, president of the Spanish Diabetes Society (SED), recalls that, in general, it

is a disease "that appears without alarms

. If it is not searched, it is not usually found or it is found in very advanced stages because the symptoms They tend to be very unspecific. And when it gets complicated, it doesn't give alarms either. "

Aware of self-care

"As it does not cause pain or great discomfort, people with type 2 diabetes are not aware that one thing leads to another," confirms Paz Gómez del Valle. For this reason, it recommends that you see

Interconnected

. "Everything is a chain, all the organs of our body are connected and thus people will be much more aware that they

have to take care of themselves and that they have to talk with their doctor and their nurse

to better understand type 2 diabetes and learn to live with her, "he highlights, also highlighting the importance of the caregiver and family being informed.

For Dr. Díez Espino, it is better to talk about the benefits of good control of people with type 2 diabetes than about the problems it causes. In his opinion,

the main difficulty is that the risk is minimized

, "because it does not bother or hurt and we must insist that, if they take care of themselves, it is in their hands to improve their life expectancy: they have to attend our consultations, not miss appointments, check eyesight, do not miss analytics, take medication, and ask any questions ".

Dr. Pérez, for his part, stresses that the documentary's simile between the building systems and the human body "is excellent, since it reflects the interconnection that exists between the organs, both for good and for bad: because if the good flows, all the organs will benefit and, if the bad flows, all will be harmed. Type 2 diabetes is this, in short: we have two elements that play a very important role -

insulin and blood glucose -, which intervene in all the functions of the organism

. And, if they flow in an adequate way, we will benefit from being controlled ".

Another fundamental piece of advice, according to Dr. Díez Espino, is that

people with type 2 diabetes should be vaccinated "against the flu, against Covid-19 and, whoever gets it, against pneumococcus

. Do not miss the opportunity to get vaccinated, you can have a lot of complications. "

What influence has the pandemic had?

The fear of contagion of Covid-19 has caused that people with type 2 diabetes do not go to consultation, warns the president of the SED.

"There are also patients who consider that their ailment is not important enough. And there is another group that loses the continuity of the visits and is finding it difficult to return. But

the vast majority of patients continue to trust the health system

. The pending issue is to give visibility of type 2 diabetes due to the repercussions it has on people's quality of life and the health repercussions ", emphasizes Dr. Pérez.

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