HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 25 (acn) Cuba will present its experience in the program on the attention of diabetic people with emphasis in the education of the illness from the level of primary health attention during the 9th Endocrinology Congress and the 3rd on Reproductive Health for Diabetic Women to be held in Havana from November 8th to the 10th.
Dr. Silvia Turcios Trista, President of the Cuban Society of Endocrinology told ACN that the events will be held with 20 symposiums and 12 master conferences among them offered by specialists from Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua and Brazil.
According to statistics, Cuba has over 700 thousand people registered with diabetes and each year it increases due to the aging population and the risk factors like eating habits, rich in fat, sugar and carbohydrates and a lack of physical exercise, said the expert.
The program of the comprehensive attention of middle aged women and the multidisciplinary service of endocrine illness, also constitutes aspects that will be discussed in the event, sponsored by the Public Health Ministry, National Endocrinology Institute, Latin American Diabetes Association and the Latin American Endocrinology Federation, said Dr. Turcios Trista.
Other issues to be touch by the specialists at the event are the Childhood endocrinology illnesses, obesity and Metabolic Syndrome; Reproduction and endocrinology; Disorders in Sexual Development; Reproductive Risk Factors in Diabetes and Infertility in men and women with diabetes.
Dr. Manuel Gomez Alzugaray, Vice President of the organizing committee highlighted the results in Cuba in the control of the preconception risk in women with diabetes to order to achieve a successful birth and the reduction of congenital malformations associated with the illness.
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