Documentary study on elderly people diagnosed with diabetes mellitus, followed up in a public primary Care Service, in the City of São Paulo

Objectives: To know the prevalence of obesity in users diagnosed with type I or II diabetes mellitus, treated at a Basic Health Unit in the southern zone of the city of São Paulo, from month to month, 2022. Methods: This is an epidemiological, descriptive, cross-sectional and documentary study, where data were collected from one hundred and thirty-nine assessments (139) medical records. attended by the Basic Health Unit, in the year 2022, located in the city of São Paulo, SP, Brazil The sample was made up of people diagnosed with type I and II diabetes mellitus, attended by the Jardim Cliper basic health unit. The inclusion criteria were all assessments of the diabetic foot of people treated by the unit and exclusion criteria were assessments that presented incomplete data. Results and Discussion: 57.66% of the sample is female and the vast majority of people with a medical diagnosis of diabetes are over 60 years old, around 77.78%. The present study demonstrates that the prevalence of obesity in adults is 40%, and the prevalence of overweight among people over 60 is 47%. Despite the knowledge that overweight and obesity are important predictors of morbidity and mortality in the general and diabetic population, effective actions to generally change this situation are still minimal. Conclusion: Of the population studied, 47% were not in the ideal weight range. Our data indicate the prevalence of obesity in diabetic patients was higher than that observed in the general Brazilian population according to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.