Your Vivre le Diabète association is a partner of Health Insurance for two mornings of prevention around diabetes. An important initiative in your opinion?
These meetings are crucial and I am delighted that the CPAM of Corse-du-Sud is organizing these diabetes awareness and screening mornings in November, in collaboration with the Lion’s Club. These initiatives are essential to allow the population to be tested free of charge. It is important to remember that in France, between 500,000 and 800,000 people** are unaware that they are diabetic.
Living Diabetes offers online podcasts. Your goal is to raise awareness among as many people as possible, not just diabetics.
Yes, because everyone is affected. It is important that as many people as possible understand what diabetes is and especially the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes, which are two distinct diseases. This would help dispel prejudices and avoid confusion. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease where patients no longer produce insulin, making them insulin dependent. It mainly affects children, adolescents and young adults and the only treatment available is insulin. Type 2 diabetes, on the other hand, is generally linked to poor diet, a sedentary lifestyle, heredity, as well as other risk factors such as hypertension and/or an index of high body mass, it occurs most often with age.
The subject is vast but you plan to deepen it with even more podcasts.
My intention is to continue to explore all facets of this chronic illness through a series of episodes, offering rich content and interviews with healthcare professionals, patients as well as their caregivers such as spouses or parents of children diabetics. Some episodes will also continue to address more general topics such as, for example, breakfast, where a dietitian nutritionist explains and offers balanced recipes with a low glycemic index, beneficial for both diabetic and non-diabetic people. Or with a nurse healthcare provider who will tell us about the closed-loop insulin pump for type 1 diabetics.
We often talk about cancer screening but much less about diabetes screening. However, the stakes are also high…
Type 2 diabetes is a true pandemic. It would be relevant, in my opinion, like screening for certain cancers, for Health Insurance to send a reminder by mail to people aged 45 to 55, for example, encouraging them to carry out an annual blood sugar test. on an empty stomach, a simple procedure that can be prescribed by their doctor. The earlier type 2 diabetes is detected, the better it can be managed. Prevention is essential to avoid developing this chronic disease.
* Open mornings dedicated to Diabetes at the CPAM of Corsica-du-Sud: November 12, Ajaccio reception hall and November 18, Porto-Vecchio agency from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. **Sources from the French Federation of Diabetics.
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