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Humans , Male , Female , Middle Aged , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Health Services for the Aged/ethics , Health Services for the Aged/legislation & jurisprudence , Hearing Loss/diagnosis , Hearing Loss/pathology , Health of the Elderly , Health Services for the Aged/organization & administration , Health Services for the Aged/standards , Health Services for the Aged/statistics & numerical data , Health Services for the Aged/trends , Health Services for the Aged , Accidental Falls/mortality , Hearing Loss/etiology , Primary Health Care/methodsABSTRACT
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Humans , Aged , Accidental Falls/prevention & control , Dementia/therapy , Geriatrics , Preventive Medicine , Drug Utilization , Geriatric AssessmentSubject(s)
Geriatrics , Preventive Medicine , Accidental Falls/prevention & control , Aged , Dementia/therapy , Drug Utilization , Geriatric Assessment , HumansSubject(s)
Health Promotion , Primary Prevention , Activities of Daily Living , Adult , Age Factors , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Alzheimer Disease/diagnosis , Alzheimer Disease/epidemiology , Alzheimer Disease/prevention & control , Dementia/diagnosis , Dementia/prevention & control , Female , Geriatric Assessment , Hearing Disorders/diagnosis , Hearing Disorders/prevention & control , Hearing Disorders/therapy , Humans , Male , Malnutrition/diagnosis , Malnutrition/prevention & control , Mass Screening , Middle Aged , Prevalence , Primary Health Care , Psychometrics , Risk Factors , Sex Factors , Urinary Incontinence/diagnosis , Urinary Incontinence/prevention & control , Urinary Incontinence/therapy , Vision Disorders/diagnosis , Vision Disorders/prevention & control , Vision Disorders/therapyABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES: To find the degree of control, the prevalence of complications and cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF), and the drugs treatment used for type II diabetics. DESIGN: A descriptive crossover study. SETTING: Rekaldeberri Health Centre, Bilbao. PATIENTS: 202 diabetes II patients selected at random. INTERVENTIONS: Data were gathered by interviews, physical examinations and further tests. MAIN RESULTS: 52.2% of the sample were women. Average age was 66.6 50% of the diabetics had been diagnosed for 8 years or more. Microalbuminuria was detected in 21.9% of the patients, Microangiopathy in 24.8%, Neuropathy in 11.4% and diabetic foot in 10.4%. The years of evolution and appearance of complications had a significant connection. 64.4% of patients had a good or acceptable metabolic control. Worse metabolic control of diabetes was connected with the appearance of retinopathy and neuropathy. 47.5% were hypertensive. 21.3% smoked, 35.6% had cholesterol figures over 250 mgr/dl. Their mean Body mass index was 28.1. 40.6% were treated exclusively by diet, 9.9% with insulin and 35.6% with medicines taken orally. CONCLUSIONS: A high percentage of diabetics had a good or acceptable control of their disease. Prevalence of complications was less than in other studies, whereas CVRFs were similar. We do not discount the presence of bias in the comparison because of different diagnostic methods.
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Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/therapy , Adult , Age Factors , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Cardiovascular Diseases/etiology , Cross-Over Studies , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/complications , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Patient Care Team , Primary Health Care , Risk FactorsABSTRACT
AIMS: To learn how the elderly people in our health area see their own state of health (AS) in relation with certain variables. DESIGN: Transverse. Survey of socio-economic and health characteristics. LOCATION: Community oriented primary care. PATIENTS OR OTHERS PARTICIPANTS: 232 psychically capable people aged 65 or over, selected at random among those attended by three general medical groups of the Rekaldeberri Primary Care Unit (Bilbao). MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: 41.4% considered their health to be good or very good. The association between AS and various variables is worked out by odds ratio calculation using logistic regression. Age and sex ar not significantly associated with AS. The variables most closely associated to negative AS were the number of illnesses affecting daily life, the number of symptoms, the number of pharmaceutical products consumed and functional incapacity of any degree. CONCLUSIONS: Patients' perception of their own health varies widely between the different studies. As is an easy parameter to obtain, summarizes both subjective and objective aspects, and is useful in assessing an elderly person's overall state of health.
