Castelló. The city of Castle welcomes the XIX Congress of the Internal Medicine Society of the Valencian Community With the participation of more than 150 specialists around a scientific program that will address the care challenge to focus attention on the person and not on the disease, especially before complex chronic patients.
The doctor Ginés Gascónpresident of the medical event, has highlighted as “fundamental” the figure of the specialist in internal medicine “because he is able to offer a global approach and an integral vision of diseases, in addition an effective care coordination with other specialties and with nursing, to face the current challenges of the system, such as care for complex chronic patients, rare diseases, patients without diagnosis or the increasingly frequently functional alterations “.
Congress has an extensive program that will take place between May 9 and 10 in the Hotel Luz from the city of Castelló and in which internists participate in most of Valencian hospitals under the organization of the internal medicine service of the Castellón General Hospital and with the collaboration of the services of the Provincial Hospital, Hospital de la Magdalena and Hospital de la Plana.
Among the tables, the one dedicated to addressing cardiovascular risk factors, which causes around a third of premature deaths, and the so -called dangerous health friends, such as hypertension, diabetes, obesity and cholesterol “whose control in normal values can influence winning life around 3 or 4 more years,” says Doctor Gascon.
New specialized consultation in patients with obesity
During the Congress, the new consultation implemented will also be presented in the Internal Medicine Service of the General Hospital of Castellón and that pays monographic care for obese patients with a body mass index between 30-35 kg/m2, a collective that until now escaped from hospital consultations, since bariatric surgery is indicated with BMI higher than 35 kg/m2 with comorbidities. kg/m2, already valued by the endocrinology service. Gascón explains that “there was, therefore, a very wide fork of patients with severe pathology so this new consultation whose results are encouraging to solve the health problems of the obese population.”
In this regard, it should be noted that obesity currently has between 16 and 17% of prevalence at the national level and up to 11% in the child and adolescent population and, according to the current trend, annual increases are expected to 1.9% percent, so in just 10 years it will affect 37% of the adult population.
The program also has papers on the continuity between primary care, hospital care and long -stay care
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