Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Old age represents a real factor for many co-morbidities dominated by metabolic disorders and cardiovascular disease and, which are the major challenges of health. Diabetes in the elderly is the sixth leading cause of mortality at this age. Our study has the objective to assess the Cardio Metabolic profile among patients with type 2 diabetes in hospital environment.Methods: It is a descriptive study conducted on 300 diabetics type 2, over 65 y...

Objective: Polymedication is particularly common among elderly diabetes patients because of the frequency of co-morbidities, of certain chronic diseases and disabilities, of the growing demand for care, therapeutic progress, but also of some of the excess of requirements. The objective of our study is to assess the frequency of comorbidities in a population of elderly diabetic type 2, analyze the drug consumption.Methods: It is a descriptive study conduc...

Introduction: Oral disorders are quite frequent in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 in particular elderly patients. Their presence at this type of persons may influence the glycemic balance and entail a reduction of the masticatory potential with a risk of malnutrition. The purpose of the work is to establish the relationship between the oral disorders and the nutritional status of the elderly subjects with diabetes mellitus type 2.Patients and Met...