Portadores de Diabetes Mellitus no Brasil: quantos sabem que são, quem eles são, como estão de saúde e como manejam a doença?

Abstract

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is one of the fastest growing diseases in national and global level. Besides resulting in high morbidity and mortality, DM generates a high degree of pain and suffering to the individual and if such offense is costly to health systems, since diabetics tend to need medical applicants and using drugs continuously. This study aimed to indicate the prevalence of DM in Brazil, and describes who the patients are, how is their health like and how they manage the disease. In 2008, the National Survey by Household Sampling (PNAD) from households was conducted; it investigates general characteristics of the population. In 2008 it was incorporated into the Health Supplement, which is the main source of data for this study. The sample consisted of 391,868 Brazilians aged over 18 years. In this research the main analyzes are restricted to 13,108 subjects who reported physician-diagnosed DM. Analyses were conducted using Stata version 10.0 and information from the sample is incorporated. Results are presented by gender and region of the country. The prevalence of DM for the Brazilian population was 3.6%, with a significant increase after 60 years, especially among women. As for the regions, the highest prevalence was observed in the Southeast (5.9%) and South (5.3%) and lower rates in the Northeast (4.0%) and North (3.7%).