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Hospitalization for Short-Term Diabetes-Related Complications: Focus on Patients Aged over 85 Years

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العنوان: Hospitalization for Short-Term Diabetes-Related Complications: Focus on Patients Aged over 85 Years
المؤلفون: Giuseppe Di Martino, Pamela Di Giovanni, Fabrizio Cedrone, Francesca Meo, Piera Scampoli, Ferdinando Romano, Tommaso Staniscia
المصدر: Healthcare; Volume 9; Issue 4; Pages: 460
بيانات النشر: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: MDPI Open Access Publishing
مصطلحات موضوعية: short-term diabetes complications, diabetes, elderly, hospitalization, epidemiology
الوصف: (1) Background: The prevalence of diabetes in elderly people is frequently high. When occurring in the elderly, diabetes is often accompanied by complications and comorbidities, at least one in 60% and four or more in 40% of older people with diabetes. As far as short-term complications among the elderly are concerned, hypoglycemia and hyperglycemic crises prove to be frequent. The aim of this study was to investigate the difference in hospitalization for short-term diabetes complications in patients below and over 85 years of age. (2) Methods: Data were collected from hospital discharge records (HDRs) of all hospital admissions that occurred in Abruzzo Region, Italy, from 2006 to 2015. Only diabetic patients aged over 65 years were included. Outcomes included were diabetic ketoacidosis, hyperosmolar coma, hypoglycemic shock, iatrogenic hypoglycemic coma, and other diabetic comas. (3) Results: During the study period, 144,376 admissions were collected, 116,305 (80.56%) of which referred to patients below 85 years. Those aged over 85 years were significantly associated to all short-term diabetes-related complications with the exception of ketoacidosis. (4) Conclusions: In older diabetic patients, the avoidance of short-term diabetes complications are a greater concern than in younger patients. Diabetes management among very elderly patients should be tailored accordingly to patient characteristics.
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اللغة: English
Relation: Chronic Care; https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9040460
DOI: 10.3390/healthcare9040460
الاتاحة: https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9040460
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.EFF1C435
قاعدة البيانات: BASE
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DOI:10.3390/healthcare9040460