[Diabetes mellitus in Spain: death rates, prevalence, impact, costs and inequalities].

Objective: Describing the situation of diabetes mellitus (DM) in Spain from a public health perspective.

Material And Method: manual review of books and other documents on diabetes mellitus in Spain was conducted. In addition, a specific research of articles published using MeSH terms diabetes mortality, prevalence, incidence, cost, inequalities and Spain was conducted in Medline through Internet (PubMed).