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Abstract The appearance of type 2 diabetes mellitus is related to several events, being overweight one of the main causes for this disease. In this context, the objective of this paper was to identify the prevalence of overweight as well as its associated factors in diabetic patients seen in the Primary Care network. This is a cross-sectional study with data from medical records of patients with diabetes treated by the Family Health Strategy Teams located in the city of Diamantina-MG. The studied population was described, according to the characteristics in absolute and relative terms. Subsequently, through the bivariate analysis, the association with excess weight was

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