Elderly patients need to be counselled on diabetes care to avoid preventable complications
Diabetes strikes hard, making your body wither away like an old rotting tree trunk. Elderly patients can have multiple complications associated with diabetes. “They have a higher risk of heart diseases and stroke,” says Dr Amritava Ghosh, consultant diabetologist and endocrinologist, Narayana Multispecialty Hospital, Whitefield, Bengaluru. “Nerves to various organs in their body could get affected. Eye problems like diabetic retinopathy and kidney problems are common in such patients. They may be more prone to infections, too.”
About 15 per cent of patients with diabetes develop ulcers in their lifetime. “They have a high risk of amputation,” says Ghosh. In India, about 45,000 amputations occur every year. Experts say that diabetes is the leading cause of non-traumatic amputations, which constitute 50 per cent of all amputations.
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