Diabetes burden in Brazil: fraction attributable to overweight, obesity, and excess weight

• Egile Nagusiak: Luísa Sorio Flor (Egilea), Monica Rodrigues Campos (Egilea), Andreia Ferreira de Oliveira (Egilea), Joyce Mendes de Andrade Schramm (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Universidade de São Paulo, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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OBJECTIVE To estimate the burden of type 2 diabetes mellitus and its percentage attributable to overweight and obesity in Brazil. METHODS The burden of diabetes mellitus was described in terms of disability-adjusted life years, which is the sum of two components: years of life lost and years lived w...