“…Regarding the populations assessed, in twenty-four studies the participants were assessed in the hospital [29, 32-35, 37-41, 44-46, 49-52, 56-58, 62, 65, 67, 68], ten in the community [18,19,21,33,34,38,44,46,50,51], and nine in primary care [31,36,48,54,61,63,64,66,69]. For the type of DM, eight studies assessed T1DM [32,34,35,39,40,44,50,58], eighteen T2DM [27, 33, 37, 41, 42, 45, 46, 48, 49, 51, 54-56, 59, 61, 64, 66, 68] and seventeen both types of DM [28-31, 36, 38, 43, 47, 52, 53, 57, 60, 62, 63, 65, 67, 69] of which only one presented prevalences by type of DM.…”