Improving Drug Prescription in Elderly Diabetic Patients

Authors

• Francesc Formiga Pérez Geriatric Unit, Internal Medicine Service, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain

fformiga@bellvitgehospital.cat

Abstract

Nowadays, there is no doubt that there is a good epidemic of ageing with the inversion of the population pyramid. There is no doubt either about the current epidemic of obesity and bad nutritional habits that have resulted in an increase of diabetic patients in the world. And the union of these epidemics has led to an increase of diabetes (DM) in the elderly.