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Risk of disability in elderly diabetic patients / Claudio Marengo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marengo, Claudio.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diabetes in old age.
- Diabetes--Complications.
- Diabetes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (101 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Torino : SEEd, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The book provides an overview of the most common diabetes-related complications, supporting the clinician in the management of type 2 diabetes in the elderly: from the diagnosis of each complication, to the role of the pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions
- Contents:
- Colophon; Table of contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Quality of Life and Functional Decline in the Elderly Diabetic Patient; 3 Vision Loss; 3.1 Diabetic Retinopathy; 3.2 Cataract; 3.3 Age-Related Macular Degeneration; 3.4 Glaucoma; 3.5 Myopia; 4 Falls in Elderly People; 4.1 Epidemiology; 4.2 Risk Factors; 4.3 Consequences of Falls; 4.4 Prevention of Falls; 5 Depression; 5.1 Aetiology and Pathogenesis; 5.2 Problems of Diagnosis; 5.3 Therapeutic Interventions; 6 Dementia and Cognitive Disorders; 6.1 Risk Factors; 6.2 Therapeutic Interventions; 7 Dyslipidaemia and Cardiovascular Risk
- 7.1 Cholesterol-Lowering Therapy7.2 Recommendations; 8 The Treatment of Diabetes in Elderly Subjects; 8.1 Oral Antidiabetic Drugs; 8.2 Insulins; Bibliography; Authors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 88-97419-06-2
- OCLC:
- 773565232
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