Educating Mexican patients on diabetes prevention and control, Issste’s priority / @drpedrozenteno @ISSSTE_mx >>>

#ISSSTE.- As part of its transformation, the Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado (Issste) has multiplied interventions to educate its beneficiaries in self-care, an indispensable strategy in the prevention and control of chronic diseases such as diabetes, which is between the first and third cause of outpatient visits in first level medical units in the country, declared the General Director, Pedro Zenteno Santaella.

The development of diabetes and its complications are directly related to inadequate nutrition, overweight, obesity and a sedentary lifestyle. For this reason, the institute has launched the second stage of the healthy eating campaign «Ya PrevIssste, Ya la hiciste!» which promotes self-care habits and is being replicated in the national network of services, he pointed out.

In 2021, the agency’s medical units attended 1,48,706 patients over the age of 20 with a diagnosis of diabetes, which represented a prevalence of 9.8 percent of the total number of beneficiaries. In turn, it ranks sixth as a cause of financial expenditure in Issste, according to the 2022 Financial and Actuarial Report.

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