Investigation on the treatment and control of type 2 diabetes mellitus combined with metabolic syndrome in elderly patients / 解放军医学杂志

ABSTRACT

objective To understand the clinical features of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) combined with metabolic syndrome (MS) in elderly patients, as well as the medicine used for treatment and the distribution of abnormal metabolic components. Methods Totally 349 T2DM patients admitted from 2001 to 2005 were retrospectively studied, among them 194 patients were combined with MS. The clinical data of those 194 patients were analyzed to evaluate their clinical feature, medicine used and the distribution of several abnormal metabolic components. of T2DM combined with MS. Results The proportion of MS in the elderly T2DM patients was 55.6%. Body mass index (BMI), postprandial blood glucose (PBG), blood pressure and triglyceride (TG) were higher than that in those patients of T2DM without MS, while the high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) was lower (P