Diabetes in the Elderly: Retrospective Study

Completed

Conditions studied: Diabetes

In brief

Diabetes is highly prevalent in the elderly, afflicting about 20% of older adults aged 65-75 years and 40% of adults \>80years of age. Management of hyperglycemia is challenging in the geriatric population in long-term facilities. Numerous factors place hospitalized patients at increased risk for hyperglycemia including aging, sedentary life, stress of medical and surgical comorbidities, and changes in antidiabetic regimen. In addition, elderly patients often experience changes in their nutritional intake and organ dysfunction which increase the risk of hypoglycemic events. There are only a few retrospective studies in elderly patients analyzing quality of diabetes care and glycemic control adjusted for medications and presence of co-morbidities in long-term care facilities. In addition, no randomized controlled trials have demonstrated benefits of glycemic control on clinical outcome, quality of life, and rate of acute metabolic complications (hyperglycemia and hypoglycemic events) in long-term care facilities.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT01104168
Run by
Emory University
People needed
1409
Starts
2010-05-01
Expected to finish
2012-12-01
Last updated by the study team
2013-11-14

Who can join

Age: 65 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

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Where it is running

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