{"title":"Diabetes in the elderly: diagnosis and treatment.","authors":"M B Davidson","doi":"10.1080/21548331.1982.11698061","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"There is overwhelming evidence that glucose tolerance deteriorates with aging, yet none of the many proposed mechanisms fully explain this phenomenon. Therefore, effective management of diabetes in the elderly remains pragmatic.","PeriodicalId":79221,"journal":{"name":"Hospital practice (Hospital ed.)","volume":"17 4","pages":"113-20, 125, 128-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1982-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/21548331.1982.11698061","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Hospital practice (Hospital ed.)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21548331.1982.11698061","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
There is overwhelming evidence that glucose tolerance deteriorates with aging, yet none of the many proposed mechanisms fully explain this phenomenon. Therefore, effective management of diabetes in the elderly remains pragmatic.