Hospitalization and Mortality of Diabetes in Older Adults: A 3-year prospective study

摘要: OBJECTIVE In light of increased fatality from acute events and the frequency chronic complications, life expectancy might well be shortened in older patients with diabetes. The current studies investigated factors affecting likelihood dying or being hospitalized RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total 135 diabetes were followed for 3 years after predictive evaluated compared a cohort without RESULTS Mortality was only 3,250 per 100,000 patient-years, similar to that diabetes, but hospitalizations more than twice as high Five predicted hospitalization death. Of these, geriatric depression score best predictor these poor outcomes. CONCLUSIONS Older often those mortality similar. Dysphoria is major outcomes