title: Treatment of diabetes in the elderly--an analysis of 885 cases.
abstract: Besides treating elderly diabetics basically for the disease, the author treated the patients by traditional Chinese medicine based on an overall analysis of their symptoms and signs, dividing the course of the disease into 5 stages comprising 16 syndromes types. He evaluated the quality of their survival according to an the health rating of Karnofsky, and advised them on the amount of work or other activity appropriate in each case in order to relieve the symptoms, retard the disease process, and improve the quality of survival.
authors.affiliation: Department of Research Studies on Diabetes and Renal Diseases, Beijing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lü
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000145:classification / Q000188:drug therapy*; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D016019:Survival Analysis; D016710:Yin Deficiency / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal