The pandemic has complicated the life of Italians with diabetes, between often skipped checkups and fear of the virus, even more aggressive in those who fight with high blood sugar. To help the many Italians who have had more difficulties in managing diabetes in recent months, the Pronto Diabete campaign has just started and will continue throughout July, sponsored by the Italian Diabetes Society, the Diabetic Doctors Association and the Italian Society of General Medicine and primary care with the membership of Diabete Italia Onlus: for two months, by calling the toll-free number 800.042747 or on the advice of your family doctor you can book a free diabetic consultation in the family doctor’s office.
Control visits
The initiative is dedicated to those who have not been in contact with a specialist structure for more than a year and do not have a diabetic visit scheduled for the next six to twelve months: the goal, therefore, is to help patients regain their pathology. which, being chronic, needs periodic visits to manage it better and also for prevent and control complications. It is not easy to do this given the large number of people with diabetes, about four million in our country, and that is why the specialists have launched a campaign in which diabetologists and family doctors are together to intercept and reach patients. Agostino Consoli, SID president-elect, observes: “Optimizing disease management means extending education and empowerment, the most sensitive and appropriate methods for the screening of complications, the therapies that allow on the one hand to safely reach a optimal metabolic control and on the other hand they help prevent cardiac, vascular and renal complications. A complex process that requires an integrated management of the person with diabetes founded on an effective and efficient interconnection between diabetologist and family doctor, over a long period “.
Manage chronicity
“The family doctor is the main custodian of the patient’s health and the diabetologist can and must play an essential role in the treatment of the most complex patients: this virtuous circle is fully feasible only by fully sharing educational strategies and therapies”, he adds. Paolo Di Bartolo, president of AMD. Today managing diabetes means not only treating the full-blown disease, but also curing it prevent complications especially in patients with risk factors such as hypertension, smoking, dyslipidemia, obesity. Medical supervision can therefore help people with diabetes to try not only to improve their glycemic compensation, but also to remain engaged in appropriate management of the disease. “Prevention is the heart of general medicine and that is why we wanted to offer these consultations within the family doctor’s office, which can make a fundamental contribution to identifying those who need specialist advice “, concludes Gerardo Medea, national manager of the Metabolic Area of the SIMG.
June 11, 2021 (change June 11, 2021 | 19:03)
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