Objectives: To describe the characteristics, metabolic control and health-related quality of life (HRQL) of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) geriatric patients.
Study Design: Cross-sectional descriptive study of consecutive patients attended at a geriatric outpatient clinic in a tertiary hospital over three months. Sociodemographic, geriatric assessment variables, HRQL (using the EuroQol instrument) and comorbidity (Charlson and CIRS-G indexes) were measured.