Management of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: 2002-2012 Literature Review

Management of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: 2002-2012 Literature Review

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the most common chronic conditions in older adults and is often accompanied by comorbidities and geriatric syndromes. The management of cardiovascular disease risk factors in older adults with DM is important to clinicians. The literature was reviewed from 200...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) 2013-11, Vol.61 (11), p.2027-2037
Hauptverfasser: Moreno, Gerardo, Mangione, Carol M.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Aged
Aspirin
Biological and medical sciences
Biomedical Research
Cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular Diseases - epidemiology
Cardiovascular Diseases - etiology
Cardiovascular Diseases - prevention & control
Diabetes
Diabetes Complications - epidemiology
Diabetes Complications - etiology
Diabetes Complications - prevention & control
diabetes mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - complications
Diabetes. Impaired glucose tolerance
Endocrine pancreas. Apud cells (diseases)
Endocrinopathies
Etiopathogenesis. Screening. Investigations. Target tissue resistance
General aspects
Health care
Humans
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Older people
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
review
Risk Factors
Risk Management
statin
Time Factors
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Zusammenfassung:Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the most common chronic conditions in older adults and is often accompanied by comorbidities and geriatric syndromes. The management of cardiovascular disease risk factors in older adults with DM is important to clinicians. The literature was reviewed from 2002 to 2012 to provide an American Geriatrics Society expert panel with an evidence base for updating and making new recommendations for improving the care of older adults with type 2 DM. This review includes only the domains of the management of blood pressure, lipid control, glycemic control, and use of aspirin. Over the last 10 years, new randomized controlled trials (RCT) designed to study different blood pressure treatment targets did not find evidence that intensive systolic blood pressure control (
ISSN:0002-8614
1532-5415
DOI:10.1111/jgs.12513