Methods
Epidemiological study of transverse approach, developed with data from all 1,320 individuals who had a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus type 1 and 2 registered in the teams of the Family Health Strategy in urban area of a city located in the Midwest of the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The study, therefore, shows on probabilistic sample, as the entire population with diabetes was analyzed from the referred health units. The municipality has population of 213,016 inhabitants and 27% of this population is registered at the Family Health Strategy program.