TY - JOUR
T1 - A Cross-Sectional Study of Quality of Life among Brazilian Adults with Type 1 Diabetes Treated with Insulin Glargine
T2 - Findings and Implications
AU - Almeida, Paulo H.R.F.
AU - Godman, Brian
AU - dos Santos Nunes-Nogueira, Vania
AU - de Lemos, Lívia L.P.
AU - de Assis Acúrcio, Francisco
AU - Guerra-Junior, Augusto A.
AU - de Araújo, Vânia E.
AU - Almeida, Alessandra M.
AU - Alvares-Teodoro, Juliana
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
©2022 by the American Diabetes Association.
PY - 2022/6
Y1 - 2022/6
N2 - This article describes a cross-sectional study involving 401 adults with type 1 diabetes treated with insulin glargine in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Health-related quality of life was assessed, and worse scores were found to be associated with a low level of education, self-perceived health reported as poor/very poor, being bedridden and not physically exercised, having seen a doctor more than four times in the past year, and having reported comorbidities and episodes of hypoglycemia.
AB - This article describes a cross-sectional study involving 401 adults with type 1 diabetes treated with insulin glargine in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Health-related quality of life was assessed, and worse scores were found to be associated with a low level of education, self-perceived health reported as poor/very poor, being bedridden and not physically exercised, having seen a doctor more than four times in the past year, and having reported comorbidities and episodes of hypoglycemia.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85148008960&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2337/cd21-0068
DO - 10.2337/cd21-0068
M3 - Article
C2 - 35983417
AN - SCOPUS:85148008960
SN - 0891-8929
VL - 40
SP - 312
EP - 326
JO - Clinical Diabetes
JF - Clinical Diabetes
IS - 3
ER -
