Comparison of prevalence of diabetes complications in Brazilian and Mexican adults: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Type 2 diabetes is more frequent in Latin American people than in non-Hispanic whites due to a combination of genetic and lifestyle risk factors. Brazil and Mexico are the most populous countries in Latin America. The present study aimed to compare the results of the National Health Survey "PNS" in Brazil and the National Survey Health and Nutrition "ENSANUT" in Mexico regarding the prevalence, complications and healthcare issues of diabetes in both countries.

Body image satisfaction, sociodemographic, functional and clinical aspects of community-dwelling older adults.

Unlabelled: Body image, according to the definition by Ledoux et al.(1) is "the systematic, cognitive, affective, conscious, and unconscious representation that people have concerning their bodies during their biological development and throughout their social relationships".

Objective: To determine the prevalence of body image satisfaction (BIS) and its relationship with sociodemographic, functional and clinical aspects in older adults.