Jornal de Diabetes e Prática Clínica

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Editorial Note on Health-Related Quality and Life among Diabetes Patient

Fatunilla S

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease with increase morbidity and mortality. It could be associated with significant adverse outcomes including poor health related quality of life. In Sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria has a large share of the morbidity and mortality of DM of which larger percentage of the population (both DM 1 and 2) remain undiagnosed. Several psychosocial factors have been found to be associated with better health related quality of life among Diabetes Mellitus (DM) patients; however there is a dearth of local research work on the psychosocial predictors of health related quality of life among this group of personspopulation level.