What Are Symptoms for Elderly Diabetics

Now that the old problems of the elderly, physique naturally there will be some decline, then there is usually lack of exercise, resulting in their diabetes had diabetic complications, for this situation, Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital diabetes specialist diabetes for the elderly in now situation made a detailed introduction, let's look at how the experts introduced, perhaps give you some help.

People with diabetes die of cardiovascular disease than those who age-sex matched non-DM crowd of more than 3 times. The survey found 500 cases of diabetes morbidity heart, brain and kidney of diabetic eye complications and gangrene occur more than 75% in the elderly population, which shows the status of older diabetes prevention in the general population in the prevention and treatment of diabetes, how important. The clinical manifestations of diabetes in a large difference between the different types of diabetes. Type I diabetes is often much to drink, eat, polyuria, weight loss typical of "a little" symptoms, some even ketoacidosis coma due to the first diagnosis. Type II diabetes more insidious onset, there is no more than a few symptoms of 50% to 70% of the cases the first treatment, some because of complications such as vision loss, hypertension, hyperlipoproteinemia.

For elderly diabetic age concept is not reunification, the Chinese use of diabetics over age 60 in 1980 the United Nations called the elderly diabetic; and some countries, now 65 years old dividing line. Elderly onset diabetes can be divided according to their old age, the onset of diabetes and the onset and young adults who continue to old age. The former almost all type II diabetes; the latter mostly type 2 diabetes, but also includes a very small number of Type 1 diabetes. Especially elderly people to produce physiological and psychological degradation, while easily co-exist in many patients, resulting in the elderly compared to young adults with diabetes diabetic condition is more complicated, but also more difficult to treat. It is necessary to understand many features of elderly diabetic to obtain reasonable for control.