title: [Diagnostic problems of diabetic nephropathy in elderly patients with diabetes from a clinical point of view].
abstract: The clinical findings of 28 diabetic females with suspicion of diabetic nephropathy were compared with the findings of 27 decreased female diabetics with ascertained diabetic glomerulosclerosis. In the two groups above all elderly female diabetics were concerned with an average duration of diabetes of more than 10 years. Of the parameters examined duration of diabetes and diabetic retinopathy still possessed the greatest diagnostic certainty. All the other symptoms (particularly proteinuria, hypertension) were only signs of reference. On account of the difficult differential diagnosis of the diabetic nephropathy an undiscriminating use of the notion should be avoided, above all then when a bioptical clarification is not possible.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001794:Blood Pressure; D003404:Creatinine / Q000378:metabolism; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000175:diagnosis; D003928:Diabetic Nephropathies / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008657:Metabolic Clearance Rate; D008875:Middle Aged
chemical_list: D003404:Creatinine
vernacular_title: Diagnostische Probleme der diabetischen Nephropathie bei Patienten mit Altersdiabetes aus klinischer Sicht.