Overview
- Local health centers, hospitals and associations are running pop-up tables and clinics offering FINDRISC testing, anthropometry, glucose checks and counseling from Nov. 13–15.
- Valladolid’s Adiva will staff public squares and hospital entrances on Friday with nurses measuring glucose and blood pressure, while Sanatorio Junín in Argentina schedules a free screening circuit on Nov. 14.
- Experts warn that underdiagnosis persists, with more than one third unaware of their condition and roughly half of those diagnosed not in treatment in Argentina, a pattern echoed by local estimates in Castile and León.
- Clinicians report a troubling rise in type 2 diabetes among children and adolescents tied to poor diet, obesity and sedentary behavior, increasing lifetime complication risk.
- Mexico’s specialists estimate about 20 million people at risk and ENSANUT data indicate roughly 18% live with diabetes, as institutions boost visibility efforts such as Rome’s Tor Vergata rectorate lighting in blue through Nov. 18.