In Brazil, the Ministry of health has created several disease control programs that impact most of the National Program of Hypertension and Diabetes Mellitus – Hiperdia was created in 2002, in an attempt to reorient pharmaceutical assistance for the continuous supply of medicines, as well as monitoring the clinical conditions of the health services patients.
Based on data from Hiperdia, the aim of this study was to analyze the association between the disease and the onset of diabetes mellitus chronic complications and describe the population characteristics of diabetics from a mid-sized city located in the Midwest of the state of Minus Gerais.