Risk for diabetes mellitus type 2: the speech of the literature and implications for nursing (part 1)

Resumen

It is a bibliographical study concerning the risk factors for diabetes mellitus type 2 and the conducts that to be adopted for the prevention. Therefore, the bases of data were consulted Medline and Lilacs, besides books, magazines, newspaper, Annals of the Brazilian Congresses of Diabetes and official publications of the Ministry of the Health. It was verified that subject comes being quite  studied so much by the professionals of the most varied areas in Brazil as in the exterior. It alerts nurses for the importance of the risk people’s identification, as well as of educational actions for the prevention of the DM2.