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ea0016p218 | Diabetes and cardiovascular diseases | ECE2008

Diabetes management and metabolic control are below expectations in specialist diabetes practice in Portugal

Cardoso Salvador Massano , Duarte Rui , Boavida Jose Manuel , Manuela Carvalheiro , Davide Carvalho , Luis Gardete

In Portugal, no relevant epidemiologic data exists relative to the management and level of control of diabetic patients.TEDDI, a non-interventional cross-sectional study, allowed to characterize the usual management of type 1 (T1D) and type 2 (T2D) diabetes using a standardized questionnaire in 1775 patients (F: 47.5%; T2D: 80.8%) aged 18 years or older, visiting their diabetes specialist (n=180).Data was obtained for metabo...