Diabetes mellitus in older African-Americans, Hispanics, and whites in an academic hospital-based geriatrics practice

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Background Diabetes mellitus is a risk factor for target-organ damage/clinical cardiovascular disease in older persons. Design A retrospective analysis was performed of charts from all older persons (506 men and 1497 women, mean age 80 ± 8 years) seen during the period from 1 January 1998 to October 1998 at an academic hospital-based geriatrics practice, to investigate the prevalence of diabetes mellitus, and the prevalence, in patients with diabetes, of target-organ damage/clinical cardiovascular disease, hypertension, hypertension or dyslipidaemia, obesity, the drugs used to treat diabetes, and poor glycaemic control. Results Diabetes mellitus occurred in 127 of 1150 whites (11%), in 93 of 444 African-Americans (21%), in 111 of 381 Hispanics (29%), and in four of 28 Asians (14%) (PPPPP 7%) occurred in 28 of 86 African-Americans (33%), in 69 of 104 Hispanics (66%), and in 23 of 118 whites (19%) (PPCoronary Artery Dis 10:343–346 © 1999 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

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