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HORIZONTAL PROGRAMMES AND PLATFORMS

• 80 patients in the control group (hospital visits)

• 80 patients in the intervention group (hospital visits replaced by telemedicine).

The project led to the hiring of 5 part-time nurses for the medical centres, of the Me-

dical Guard telematic systems from Pulso Ediciones S.L., of CRO services from Insight
Consulting & Research S.L. and of a data analyst. Furthermore, it also led to taking

out liability insurance.

In April 2012, the database was closed with data from the first six months and the

degree of compliance was evaluated as the study ended with 118 patients from the
153 who were initially included. The preliminary results analyzed at the end of 2012

suggest that telemedicine applied to DM1 patients who are being treated with MDI and
inappropriate metabolic control is a valid strategy providing results that are compa-

rable with hospital visits as regards the improvement in blood glucose control, acqui-

sition of knowledge, quality of life and therapeutic compliance, with a significant time
reduction time spent, especially for the patient. Final and more comprehensive results
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were presented in 2013.

STUDY [email protected]

CIBERDEM Project

http://www.ciberdem.org/estudio_diabetes.php

[email protected] is a national population study having a cohort that is representative of the

general Spanish population with the application of a homogenous methodology. The
objective was primarily to investigate the association between the presence of meta- í

bolic impairments and health habits. The results were published in 2011 and 2012.

However, in 2013 the group was working on scientific papers associated with data
obtained from the project.

CIBERDEM groups: Dr. Federico Soriguer, Dr. Rafael Carmena, Dr. Joan Vendrell, Dr.

Luis Castao, Dr. Manuel Serrano Ros and Dr. Ramon Gomis.

Primary Objectives: To determine the overall (known and unknown) prevalence of

type 2 diabetes mellitus in Spain, in a representative sample of the Spanish popula-
tion. To determine the degree of association between DM and physical activity and

eating habits of individuals, and to make a scientific health evaluation instrument
available for institutional health strategies on a national level.

Secondary Objectives: To determine the prevalence of impaired fasting glucose and

impaired glucose tolerance, insulin resistance, arterial hypertension, dyslipidemia, 13
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obesity and metabolic syndrome. To determine the association of these impairments T
and physical activity and eating habits of individuals.
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Tertiary Objectives: To make a biological sample collection containing a represen- E
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tative sample of the Spanish population available to the scientific community to allow A
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conducting genotype-phenotype-environment interaction studies. To establish the ba- N
sis for a future project to determine the incidence of metabolic disorder in this cohort.
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The use of the information gathered in the field study allows providing more informa- EM
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tion about diabetes and other studied biomedical problems. Furthermore, it will allow ER
implementing collaboration strategies with other national or international projects de- B
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signed with similar objectives.
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