In recent years, the growth in the prevalence of diabetes to more than 371 million people worldwide has encouraged governments, international and national health organizations to identify diabetes as the colossal threat that it actually constitutes prioritizing the development of strategies to prevent, control and reduce the danger that this disease and its complications mean.
The Organizing Committee of the 3rd Annual International Conference on Comprehensive care of patients with diabetic foot ulcers has expanded the scope of its thematic Congress and now their next biannual editions were called: Controlling diabetes and its more severe complications. This year between December 10 and 12 they will be discuss various issues related to this disease through four symposia at the Marina Hotel Melia Varadero Convention Center in Matanzas province.
This summit is sponsored by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), the Latin American Diabetes Association, Diabetes Association of Cuba, the Cuban Society of Endocrinology, the Cuban Society of Angiology and Vascular Surgery, Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) and the trading Heber Biotec Sa.
They expect the participation of about 800 delegates and 45 international leaders in the management of diabetes and its complications have confirmed their attendance to the Congress, to give lectures on links between obesity and diabetes, the impact of bad habits on the rise prevalence of diabetes worldwide, metabolic control and management of complications, monitoring patients with diabetes 1 and 2, diabetic neuropathy and its complications, peripheral vascular disease and its complications, role of hyper glucose metabolic impairment diabetic, insulin therapy, molecular mechanisms in the mega process of wound healing, the role of growth factors in the regulation of wound healing, state of treatments for diabetic foot ulcers and the design and implementation of programs aimed to achieve optimal quality of life in the person sick with diabetes.
