Table 1.
Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of 979 Brazilian patients with type 1 diabetes, Brazil
| Characteristics | n (%) |
| Sociodemographics | |
| Age (years) | |
| 18–29 | 296 (30.2) |
| 30–49 | 412 (42.1) |
| ≥50 | 271 (27.7) |
| Sex female | 625 (63.8) |
| Race/skin colour | |
| White | 488 (49.8) |
| Mixed | 286 (29.2) |
| Black | 122 (12.5) |
| Other | 83 (8.5) |
| Education* | |
| At least some college | 154 (15.8) |
| Secondary/high school | 424 (43.4) |
| Primary school or less | 398 (40.8) |
| Brazilian region | |
| South-east | 611 (62.4) |
| North-east | 174 (17.8) |
| South | 104 (10.6) |
| Centre-west | 90 (9.2) |
| Clinical | |
| Type of service for medical care in the last year | |
| Public | 884 (90.3) |
| Private | 95 (9.7) |
| BMI (kg/m2)† | |
| <25.0 | 502 (52.5) |
| ≥25.0 | 455 (47.5) |
| Clinical complications | |
| Hypoglycaemic episodes in the last year | 497 (50.8) |
| Ketoacidosis hospitalisation in the last year | 248 (25.3) |
| Reported complications | |
| Retinopathy | 427 (43.6) |
| Neuropathy‡ | 381 (39.2) |
| Nephropathy | 207 (21.1) |
| Angina§ | 129 (13.2) |
| Vasculopathy§ | 125 (12.8) |
| Laboratory | |
| HbA1c (%) | |
| <7.0 | 102 (10.4) |
| 7.0–8.9 | 366 (37.4) |
| 9.0–10.9 | 287 (29.3) |
| >11.0 | 224 (22.9) |
*Data available for 976 patients.
†Data available for 957 patients.
‡Data available for 973 patients.
§Data available for 977 patients.
BMI, body mass index; HbA1c, glycated haemoglobin.