Diabetes in the elderly. Reflections by a practitioner in diabetology
Curchod, B.
Schweizerische Rundschau für Medizin Praxis 79(35): 1005-1007
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 1013-2058 PMID: 2218218 Document Number: 356558
Above 70 years of age, it is no more necessary to be obsessed by the prevention of late complications in introducing an intensive treatment. A symptomatic one, particularly with insulin is more appropriate. Before treating diabetics it is necessary to search symptomatically for aggravating factors like the use of thiazide or intercurrent diseases.