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Diabetes mellitus - pohled internisty, geriatra a diabetologa současně

Title in English Diabetes mellitus - the concurrent point of view of a internal medicine specialist, geriatrician and diabetologist
Authors

WEBER Pavel MELUZÍNOVÁ Hana WEBEROVÁ Dana BIELAKOVÁ Katarína

Year of publication 2014
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Postgraduální medicína
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Field Endocrinology, diabetology, metabolism, nutrition
Keywords diabetes mellitus; old age; polymorbidity; epidemiology; etiopathogenesis
Description Diabetes mellitus represents the most clinically significant metabolic disease in the elderly. Most of the elderly patients suffer from type 2 diabetes (up to 95% among those over 70). Hyperglycaemia can, in patients of advanced age, cause only atypical or non-specific symptoms, even if it is high. The prognosis of diabetes in elderly patients is going to closely depend on the degree of compensation and the level of control maintained over the risk factor of ischemic heart disease (hypertension, dyslipidaemia, obesity).

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