About 40% of people with diabetes ignore that they have the disease. Hospital da Luz Clínica da Covilhã will mark the World Diabetes Day (November 14) by carrying out free health screenings: between November 14th and 17 th , the nursing team will be available at the Clinic, divulging information on the disease and carrying out screenings, including glucose measurement and BMI calculation . Diabetes is a chronic disease. Simply put, we could say that having diabetes means having too much sugar in the blood (glucose), due to a disturbance in the sugar metabolism. In Portugal, the number of diabetes cases has doubled these last 20 years and the disease is estimated to affect over a million people. It causes complications in different organs of the body, which can reduce the quality and the number of years of life. It is, for instance, the main cause of blindness, renal failure and non-traumatic amputation. In western countries, it has as main origin the sedentary lifestyle of the population, the lack of physical exercise and an excessively caloric diet. Diagnosing diabetes in time is fundamental. Take the screening! Date: 14 to 17 November 2023, from 08:00 a.m. to 18:00 p.m. Place: Hospital da Luz Clínica da Covilhã
