Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is common in the elderly and more than half of the people with diabetes are over 65 years old. Elderly diabetic patients have a higher frequency of hypertension, coronary artery disease and chr...Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is common in the elderly and more than half of the people with diabetes are over 65 years old. Elderly diabetic patients have a higher frequency of hypertension, coronary artery disease and chronic kidney disease than non-diabetic elderly patients and the risk of these complications increases with patient age, duration of the dia- betes and glycated hemoglobin values. Besides the known classical factors of renal disease progression,展开更多
Facing the needs of an increasingly ageing population is rapidly becoming a major public health issue in western countries, Chronic kidney disease (CKD), whose current prevalence is estimated around 10%-15% in the g...Facing the needs of an increasingly ageing population is rapidly becoming a major public health issue in western countries, Chronic kidney disease (CKD), whose current prevalence is estimated around 10%-15% in the general population, with considerably higher figures in at-risk groups, is widely known to increase with age. In the elderly, renal impairment is often concomitant or secondary to several other systemic disorders such as hypertension, atherosclerosis,展开更多
文摘Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is common in the elderly and more than half of the people with diabetes are over 65 years old. Elderly diabetic patients have a higher frequency of hypertension, coronary artery disease and chronic kidney disease than non-diabetic elderly patients and the risk of these complications increases with patient age, duration of the dia- betes and glycated hemoglobin values. Besides the known classical factors of renal disease progression,
文摘Facing the needs of an increasingly ageing population is rapidly becoming a major public health issue in western countries, Chronic kidney disease (CKD), whose current prevalence is estimated around 10%-15% in the general population, with considerably higher figures in at-risk groups, is widely known to increase with age. In the elderly, renal impairment is often concomitant or secondary to several other systemic disorders such as hypertension, atherosclerosis,