Publication details

Diabetes ve vyšším věku

Title in English Diabetes in old age
Authors

WEBER Pavel MELUZÍNOVÁ Hana WEBEROVÁ Dana

Year of publication 2015
Type Chapter of a book
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Description Diabetes mellitus (DM) occurs in elderly patients often in the context of multimorbidity and may participate in the creation and development of significant disability. It can then significantly influence all other diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Treatment of DM in old age is based on the same principles as in younger individuals: diet, physical activity, event. drugs. The goals that need to be taken into account when selecting therapy DM: diabetic age; including life expectancy; the presence of macro-and microangiopathic complications; degree of self-sufficiency; family environment and economic conditions; nutritional habits (including. condition of teeth); other disabilities - mental, motor, visual and auditory.

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