João Soares Felício, Ana Carolina Contente Braga de Souza, Camila Cavalcante Koury, João Felício Abrahão Neto, Karem Barbosa Miléo, Flávia Marques Santos, Ana Regina Bastos Motta, Denisson Dias Silva, Thaís Pontes Arbage, Carolina Tavares Carvalho, Hana Andrade de Rider Brito, Elizabeth Sumi Yamada, Roberta Arnoldi Cobas, Alessandra Matheus, Lucianne Tannus, Catia Cristina Sousa Palma, Leticia Japiassu, João Regis Ivar Carneiro, Melanie Rodacki, Lenita Zajdenverg, Neuza Braga Campos de Araújo, Marilena de Menezes Cordeiro, Jorge Luiz Luescher, Renata Szundy Berardo, Marcia Nery, Catarina Cani, Maria do Carmo Arruda Marques, Luiz Eduardo Calliari, Renata Maria de Noronha, Thais Della Manna, Roberta Savoldelli, Fernanda Garcia Penha, Milton Cesar Foss, Maria Cristina Foss-Freitas, Antonio Carlos Pires, Fernando Cesar Robles, Carlos Antonio Negrato, Maria de Fatima Guedes, Sergio Atala Dib, Patricia Dualib, Saulo Cavalcanti da Silva, Janice Sepúlveda, Emerson Sampaio, Rosangela Roginski Rea, Ana Cristina Ravazzani de Almeida Faria, Balduino Tschiedel, Suzana Lavigne, Gustavo Adolfo Cardozo, Mirela Azevedo, Luis Henrique Canani, Alessandra Teixeira Zucatti, Marisa Helena Cesar Coral, Daniela Aline Pereira, Luiz Antonio de Araujo, Hermelinda Cordeiro Pedrosa, Monica Tolentino, Flaviene Alves Prado, Nelson Rassi, Leticia Bretones de Araujo, Reine Marie Chaves Fonseca, Alexis Dourado Guedes, Odelisa Silva de Mattos, Manuel Faria, Rossana Azulay, Adriana Costa E Forti, Cristina Figueiredo Sampaio Façanha, Renan Montenegro Junior, Ana Paula Montenegro, Naira Horta Melo, Karla Freire Rezende, Alberto Ramos, Deborah Laredo Jezini, Marilia Brito Gomes
BACKGROUND: In type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) management, enhancing health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is as important as good metabolic control and prevention of secondary complications. This study aims to evaluate possible regional differences in HRQoL, demographic features and clinical characteristics of patients with T1DM in Brazil, a country of continental proportions, as well as investigate which variables could influence the HRQoL of these individuals and contribute to these regional disparities...
2015: Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome