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Diabetes do tipo 2 em adultos

Last reviewed: 24 Sep 2025
Last updated: 20 Nov 2024

Summary

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • presença de fatores de risco
  • assintomático
  • polidipsia
  • poliúria
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Other diagnostic factors

  • infecções por cândida
  • infecções cutâneas
  • infecções do trato urinário
  • fadiga
  • visão turva
  • polifagia
  • perda de peso não intencional
  • parestesias
  • acantose nigricans
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Risk factors

  • idade avançada
  • sobrepeso/obesidade
  • diabetes gestacional
  • hiperglicemia não diabética
  • história familiar de diabetes do tipo 2
  • ascendência não branca
  • síndrome do ovário policístico
  • hipertensão
  • dislipidemia
  • doença cardiovascular
  • estresse
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Diagnostic investigations

1st investigations to order

  • glicemia de jejum
  • HbA1c
  • glicemia 2 horas após sobrecarga com ingesta de 75 g de glicose
  • glicemia plasmática aleatória
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Investigations to consider

  • perfil lipídico em jejum
  • cetonúria
  • relação entre albumina e creatinina (RAC)
  • creatinina sérica e taxa de filtração glomerular (TFG) estimada
  • eletrocardiograma (ECG)
  • índice de pressão tornozelo-braquial (ITB)
  • peptídeo C aleatório
  • testagem de autoanticorpos
  • testes da função hepática
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Treatment algorithm

INITIAL

no diagnóstico inicial

ACUTE

HbA1C acima da meta: não gestante

HbA1C acima do limite acordado na farmacoterapia inicial ou alterações de risco cardiovascular: não gestante

gestante

Contributors

Authors

Surya Rajeev, MBBS, MRCP, MD

Consultant Physician and Clinical Director

Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology

Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

UK

Disclosures

SR has received reimbursement from Novo Nordisk for conferences, and has presented paid lectures.

Acknowledgements

Dr Surya Rajeev would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Partha Kar, Dr Amar Puttanna, Dr Patrick J. O'Connor and Dr JoAnn M. Sperl-Hillen, the previous contributors to this topic.

Disclosures

PK has sat on advisory boards and attended events reimbursed by Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly, and Sanofi. AP has received honoraria from Napp, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi, Lilly-Boehringer Ingelheim, Daiichi-Sankyo, and AstraZeneca for presentation at meetings, conference registration, or participating in advisory boards. PJO receives research funding from the National Institutes of Health on multiple projects and is an author of a number of references cited in this topic. JMS-H is an author of a number of references cited in this topic and is an inventor on a US patent for Disease Treatment Simulation, a simulation-based technology developed without commercial support to educate health providers on chronic disease management in a virtual environment.

Peer reviewers

Vinod Patel, MD, FRCP, FHEA, MRCGP, DRCOG, MBChB, BSc (Hons), RCPathME

Professor, Diabetes and Clinical Skills

Warwick Medical School

University of Warwick

Hon Consultant in Endocrinology and Diabetes, Acute Medicine, Medical Obstetrics

Diabetes and Endocrinology Centre

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

Nuneaton

Clinical Director for Diabetes West Midlands Clinical Networks & Clinical Senate

NHS England and NHS Improvement - Midlands

UK

Disclosures

VP declares he has worked with most of the large pharmaceutical industry groups over the years with the majority of the work being in education of healthcare professionals in diabetes care. This includes Novo Nordisk, Eli Lily, MSD, BI, Sanofi, Napp, Internis, Takeda, and AZ. VP has been part of advisory board work on occasions. VP has received conference arrangements and lecture fees. VP is a trustee of the charity South Asian Health Foundation.

Gregory Lip, MD, FRCP, DFM, FACC, FESC, FEHRA

Price-Evans Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine

University of Liverpool

Senior Investigator

National Institute for Health Research

UK

Distinguished Professor

Faculty of Medicine

Aalborg University

Denmark

Adjunct Professor

Yonsei University

Seoul

South Korea

Disclosures

GL has acted as a consultant and speaker for BMS/Pfizer, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Daiichi-Sankyo.

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Disclosures

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References

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Key articles

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Type 2 diabetes in adults: management. Jun 2022 [internet publication].Full text

Marx N, Federici M, Schütt K, et al. 2023 ESC Guidelines for the management of cardiovascular disease in patients with diabetes. Eur Heart J. 2023 Oct 14;44(39):4043-140.Full text  Abstract

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Diabetes in pregnancy: management from preconception to the postnatal period. Dec 2020 [internet publication].Full text

Davies MJ, Aroda VR, Collins BS, et al. Management of hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes, 2022. A consensus report by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD). Diabetes Care. 2022 Nov 1;45(11):2753-86.Full text  Abstract

Reference articles

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  • Guidelines

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    • Management of hyperglycaemia in type 2 diabetes, 2022
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  • Patient information

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  • Calculators

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