Treatment of Diabetes - Geriatric Medicine
Prevention of Clinical Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes mellitus affects more than 100 million individuals worldwide and, because of known risk factors common to many…
Management During Terminal Phases of the Illness: The Elderly Nursing Home Patient
Approximately 3% to 5% of the population over the age of 65 live in nursing homes. One-third of…
Management of the Hospitalized Diabetic Patient
Elderly diabetic individuals are hospitalized about twice as often as elderly people without diabetes. In the NHANES II…
Blood Pressure Control and Complications in Type 2 Diabetes
UKPDS 38 evaluated the effect of hypertension control on diabetic outcomes. The study involved the randomization of 1148…
Glucose Control - Diabetes Mellitus in the Elderly
The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) was a randomized, controlled trial of individuals with type 1 diabetes…
United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS 33)
The UKPDS 33 investigated whether tight control of blood glucose in type 2 diabetic patients reduced the risk…
Pathogenesis of Age-Associated Glucose Intolerance - Diabetes Mellitus - Geriatric Medicine
Glucose intolerance associated with aging itself may predispose to the development of overt diabetes mellitus. Glucose intolerance is…
Pathogenesis of Diabetes Mellitus in the Elderly
A strong genetic predisposition to type 2 diabetes in middle-aged and elderly patients exists. The specific genes responsible…
Diabetes Mellitus Clinical Presentation
Classic symptoms of polyuria or polydipsia are rarely present. Glucose is not spilled into the urine until the…
Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus in the Elderly
The diagnosis of diabetes mellitus is made primarily through the findings of elevated glucoses on fasting laboratory samples,…
Prognosis and Course of Illness
It had been hoped for many years that intensive treatment of diabetes mellitus would reverse or defer significantly…
Diabetes Mellitus Specific Clinical Patterns with Aging
A variety of metabolic, sensory, and cardiovascular conditions accompany the widespread prevalence of diabetes in the elderly and…
