Overweight elderly patient suffering from multiple comorbidities

Paziente anziano sovrappeso affetto da molteplici comorbilità

Authors

  • Sebastiano Bruno Solerte Dipartimento di Medicina Interna, UOC di Geriatria e di Diabetologia, ASP Pavia, IDR Santa Margherita, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia - Italy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19156/abtpn.2018.0047

Keywords:

Type 2 diabetes, Obesity, Hypertension, Empagliflozin

Abstract

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)

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Published

2018-07-26

How to Cite

Solerte, S. B. (2018). Overweight elderly patient suffering from multiple comorbidities: Paziente anziano sovrappeso affetto da molteplici comorbilità. AboutOpen, 4(1), 80–82. https://doi.org/10.19156/abtpn.2018.0047

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2018): January - December 2018

Section

Case report

License

Copyright (c) 2018 The authors

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Metrics

Crossref
Scopus
Google Scholar
Europe PMC