No communicable diseases, including cardiovascular disease, breast cancer or lung cancer and other serious cause 60% of deaths in our country. In addition, while there are effective measures to prevent, the risk factors that produce increased over the past four years.
Obesity, inactivity, diabetes, excess salt in foods and decreased consumption of fruits and vegetables (only one in 20 Argentines eat five daily servings recommended) are moving steadily, according to the results of the II National Survey of Risk Factors, filed yesterday.
“You can tell people what to do to improve their quality of life, but if the environment is unpleasant is not healthy, do not change behavior. We know more about what to eat or have to move more for health care, but the reality is that the situation has worsened compared to 2005. This shows that we must move in the regulations, as with snuff, on the ticket of food and salt use or elimination of Trans fats in the food industry, “said Dr. Sebastian Lazier, director of Promotion Health and Control of No communicable Diseases, Ministry of Health.
The good news is that in these years increased by 10% the number of people with health coverage, declined between 2 and 3% tobacco and snuff smoke exposure outside the municipal and provincial implementation of 100% free environments smoke, and people began to control than pressure, cholesterol and blood glucose (blood sugar) in public hospitals.
For example: 81.4% ensures that pressure is controlled, compared with 70% four years ago. In these measurements, three out of 10 had high blood pressure at least once. Meanwhile, 76.6% of men over 35 and women over 45 said that “ever” are controlled cholesterol, an important indicator of vascular health. The 30% have LDL cholesterol or “bad” cholesterol.
However, a survey released today Argentina Heart Foundation states that one of every two adults does nothing to control his cholesterol. 20% of the thousand people surveyed did not because “I had no symptoms.
It also increased blood glucose measurement, which “describe” how they are behaving several key hormones for the development of disease. One is insulin, whose alteration causes diabetes, which in four years from affecting 8.4% to 9.6% of those over 18 years.
What was also improved breast care at age 40 and the prevention of cervical cancer from 18 years: while the performance of mammography increased from 42 to 54%, Pap did the 51 to 64 percent.
“The access of women to these two controls improved especially in the northwest and northeast of the country, the regions where there are more disadvantages. However, we also note that the performance of mammography is still quite heterogeneous because of the lack of mammography in all jurisdictions, “said Dr. Daniel Ferranti, coordinator of this second edition of the survey during the presentation of results to representatives of the Ministries of Health provincial and the Pan American Health Organization.
