In the 1950s with diabetes patients have twice the risk of developing diseases "geriatric", study

Anonymous 9/10/2011 08:08:00 AM

Patients with diabetes are more likely to develop conditions for age than their counterparts who have no diabetes, according to a new study by the health system of the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor VA health System.


Adults between 51 and 70 with developed diabetes disease linked the age to cognitive disorders, incontinence, falls, dizziness, or visually impairment and pain at a faster rate than those without diabetes, concluded the study. Results were published in the edition of March of the journal of general internal medicine.

"Our results indicate that with average age adults with diabetes begin to accumulate these problems related to age," said author main Christine Cigolle, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of family medicine and medicine internal medicine scientific research umich school in va "" because diabetes affects several organs and "systems", it has the potential to contribute significantly to the development of a number of issues that we associate with aging "."

For adults aged less than 60 years with diabetes, the chances of developing new geriatric conditions were almost double their counterparts that do not have diabetes, the researchers found. Time of the popular with and without diabetes to reach 80, the overall effects of aging and the impact of other diseases begin to reduce the disparities between the two groups.

The research is based on representative data at the national level of the study of health and retirement from the University of Michigan.

"The results suggest that adult patients with diabetes should be monitored for the development of these conditions begin at a younger age than thought earlier," said Cigolle, also Assistant Professor of research at the Institute of Gerontology of umich.

"If we know how find these terms and conditions above, we can manage and process diabetes more efficiently," she adds.

Funding: The research was funded by the National Institute on Aging, national institutes of health with Ann Arbor Geriatric Education and research Clinical Center, John a. MacDonald Hartford Foundation Centre of excellence in geriatric medicine at the University of Michigan and Claude d. Pepper older American independence Center at the University of Michigan.
Other authors: Pearl g. Lee, M.D.; Kenneth M. Langa, PhD.; YUO - Yu Lee, M.S.; Zhiyi Tian, M.S.; and Caroline s. Blaum, M.D., M.S., all umich doctors .
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