title: [Insulin dependent (type 1) diabetes mellitus in advanced age].
abstract: In everyday praxis diabetes mellitus diagnosed over the age of fifty years, means generally type 2 diabetes. Authors present cases where diabetes, beginning in advanced age, showed typical classical diabetic symptoms, like polyuria, polydipsia, loss of bodyweight. Apart from these signs a rapid decompensation of carbohydrate metabolism characterises this diabetes form. The most significant features are the rapid decrease of serum immunoreactive insulin and C-peptide levels, what is characteristic for the diminishing insulin secretory capacity. The patients had to be switched to insulin therapy within maximum 6 weeks. These patients can be easily differentiated both from type 2 and from the slowly progressing type 1 subtype. We suppose that the pathomechanism of this type of diabetes differs from the classical insulin-dependent form, beginning in young age.
authors.affiliation: Országos Korányi Tbc és Pulmonologiai Intézet, Budapest.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Halmos
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Suba
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kautzky
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002096:C-Peptide / Q000097:blood; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000276:immunology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007328:Insulin / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
chemical_list: D002096:C-Peptide; D007328:Insulin
vernacular_title: Inzulindependens (1. típusú) diabetes mellitus idöskorban.