Overweight elderly patient suffering from multiple comorbidities

We report an elderly patient suffering from type 2 diabetes mellitus for over 10 years, under conventional anti-diabetic therapy for a number of months and not adequately responsive. The patient, in unstable glycemic compensation, is obese, hypertensive and presents microalbuminuria. He is also aff...

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Main Author: Sebastiano Bruno Solerte
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Language:English
Published: AboutScience Srl 2018-07-01
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Online Access:https://journals.aboutscience.eu/index.php/aboutopen/article/view/155
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spelling doaj-37b2d3c5e3e2477ba5b20f839cb799692020-11-25T03:34:07ZengAboutScience SrlAboutOpen2465-26282018-07-014110.19156/abtpn.2018.0047Overweight elderly patient suffering from multiple comorbiditiesSebastiano Bruno Solerte0Dipartimento di Medicina Interna, UOC di Geriatria e di Diabetologia, ASP Pavia, IDR Santa Margherita, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia - Italy We report an elderly patient suffering from type 2 diabetes mellitus for over 10 years, under conventional anti-diabetic therapy for a number of months and not adequately responsive. The patient, in unstable glycemic compensation, is obese, hypertensive and presents microalbuminuria. He is also affected by several co-morbidities (Diabetology) https://journals.aboutscience.eu/index.php/aboutopen/article/view/155Type 2 diabetesObesityHypertensionEmpagliflozin
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Overweight elderly patient suffering from multiple comorbidities
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Type 2 diabetes
Obesity
Hypertension
Empagliflozin
author_facet Sebastiano Bruno Solerte
author_sort Sebastiano Bruno Solerte
title Overweight elderly patient suffering from multiple comorbidities
title_short Overweight elderly patient suffering from multiple comorbidities
title_full Overweight elderly patient suffering from multiple comorbidities
title_fullStr Overweight elderly patient suffering from multiple comorbidities
title_full_unstemmed Overweight elderly patient suffering from multiple comorbidities
title_sort overweight elderly patient suffering from multiple comorbidities
publisher AboutScience Srl
series AboutOpen
issn 2465-2628
publishDate 2018-07-01
description We report an elderly patient suffering from type 2 diabetes mellitus for over 10 years, under conventional anti-diabetic therapy for a number of months and not adequately responsive. The patient, in unstable glycemic compensation, is obese, hypertensive and presents microalbuminuria. He is also affected by several co-morbidities (Diabetology)
topic Type 2 diabetes
Obesity
Hypertension
Empagliflozin
url https://journals.aboutscience.eu/index.php/aboutopen/article/view/155
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