“…Studies applying the ADDQoL scale, which was verified among many populations differing in terms of culture, ethnicity and the environment, were carried out in both types of diabetes in many countries, i.e. England [3], Slovenia [6], Greece [7], Turkey [14], Romania [8], Portugal [19], Korea [15], Taiwan [5,16], China [17], Malaysia [13,20], Chinese-speaking participants in Singapore [21], Argentina [9], Australia [12], and north-eastern United States (among Spanish-speaking patients of Puerto-Rican nationality residing there) [10]. It was found that in societies inhabiting various parts and regions of the world the influence of diabetes on particular domains of the QoL of persons with this disease was differentiated.…”