Juana Carretero, president of SEMI, will be in charge of presenting the meeting.
One hundred internists from the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine (SEMI) will meet this Friday and Saturday at the scientific meeting ‘Diabetes and Heart Failure in the Cardiorenal Continuum‘ of the SEMI, in which they will address the main diagnostic and therapeutic novelties in the approach to heart failure and diabetes mellitusas well as on the main pathologies of the cardio-renal-metabolic sphere
It’s about the second meeting joint organized by the Diabetes, Obesity and Nutrition working groups (DON) and Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation (Icyfa) of SEMI. The meeting will be hosted by Juana Carreteropresident of SEMI, and the inaugural conference, under the title ‘Cardiorenal continuum of the patient with DM2’, will be given by Javier Carrasco Sanchezof the Internal Medicine Service of the Juan Ramón Jiménez de Huelva University Hospital, and will be presented by Luis Manzano Espinosa, of the Internal Medicine Service of the Ramón y Cajal University Hospital in Madrid. For his part, Peter Paul Married y Jesus Marriedcoordinators of the ICyFA and DON GT of the SEMI, will carry out the session ‘Highlights, conclusions and closure’ of the conference.
The integrating and holistic nature of the Internal Medicine specialty is essential for the proper approach to patients with diabetes and heart failure, “facilitating early diagnosis and avoiding the evolution of both pathologies towards more severe states.”
Diabetes
The prevalence of diabetes has increased worldwide by 30 percent in the past decade and heart failure affects 26 million people in total, with its prevalence also increasing.
In this type of patient, the prevalence from heart failure stands between the 9 and 22 percent.
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