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However, the quality of the assistance provided to people with diabetes and the health results<br />

are aspects which are difficult to evaluate. Most studies have been carried out in specific and<br />

hardly representative areas of the diabetic population as a whole or with methodological problems<br />

(i.e., the sampling was not randomized).<br />

A recent report carried out within a wide population, which included 430 health centres<br />

throughout Spain (8) and 1,907 diabetic patients, stated that 22.6% of the patients smoke, 49.4%<br />

have glycosylated haemoglobin beyond 7% and 31.5% present >30 kg/m2 body mass index<br />

(BMI). As regards other more controversial indicators, 61.3% suffer from cardiovascular risk,<br />

according to Framingham original ³20%; 5.6% reach LDL

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