Queen Sofia has fully recovered from the urine infection that kept her hospitalized for four days in a clinic in Madrid. The proof is that this Friday, Zarzuela announced its trip to Krakow (Poland) next week to attend an international forum on Alzheimer's disease. For years, the Reina Sofía Foundation has been dedicated to promoting initiatives to help those affected by this neurodegenerative disease. The King's mother received the hospital certificate on April 13, but she continued the treatment at her residence in Zarzuela until she was discharged.
Queen Sofia is scheduled to stay three days in the Polish city. On Tuesday, April 23, he will preside over the opening of the 36th edition of the world conference on Alzheimer's disease, organized by Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI), which will bring together numerous researchers, doctors and representatives of associations fighting for three days. against this neurodegenerative disease from more than a hundred countries.
Precisely, during the congress Pascual Sánchez Juan, scientific director of CIEN (Center for Research on Neurological Diseases), will present the result of a study financed by the Reina Sofía Foundation and the Carlos III Health Institute. The research is based on the unique design of the Alzheimer's Center of the Reina Sofía Foundation, in which more than 10 years of data have been collected from volunteers at the center's residence, thanks to the support and financing of the Reina Sofía Foundation and the Carlos III Health Institute.
The study paves the way to better understand the mechanisms of Alzheimer's and offers a valuable perspective for early detection and possible treatments, in a context like the current one, in which new drugs, personalized medicine approaches and blood biomarker research They renew hope in the fight against a pathology that affects around 800,000 people in Spain.
Queen Sofía will attend other sessions and will return to Madrid on the 25th, on the eve of the closing of the forum, whose objective is to share the latest advances in research, care and treatment related to Alzheimer's and other dementias.
Upon her return from Poland, Queen Sofia plans to reschedule visits to the food banks in Huesca and Guadalajara, scheduled for the 12th and 16th, which had to be postponed due to her state of health. .
