In the state of Amapá, according to information from the Ministry of Health Ministério da Saúde - MINSA in the Diabetes and hypertension system of registration and control SIS-HIPERDIA which is grouped by state, between January 1999 and April 2008 it were diagnosed 764 cases of DM, with 65.7% of the female gender.
En el estado de Amapá, se diagnosticaron 2 764 casos de DM, de estos 65.7% correspondía al sexo femenino, de acuerdo con el Ministerio de Salud MINSA a través del Sistema de Registro y Control de diabéticos e hipertensos SIS-HIPERDIA agrupados por estados, a partir de enero de 1999 hasta abril de 2008.