[Japanese Elderly Diabetes Intervention Trial (J-EDIT)].
Treatment goals of medical care for the elderly patients with diabetes mellitus are maintaining high quality of life and elongating healthy longevity. In order to clarify how the elderly patients with diabetes mellitus should be treated for those purposes, a randomized controlled intervention study using 1,173 Japanese elderly patients with diabetes mellitus is now performing. All subjects have moderate or severe glucose intolerance. Subjects have been divided into two groups, ordinary treatment group and treatment group treated as same as adult patients with diabetes mellitus. The study has not been finished. Therefore, intermediate results were demonstrated and expectation for the study were discussed.
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Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Medical Treatment Corporation, Tama-Hokubu Medical Center.
D000368:Aged; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D018149:Glucose Intolerance; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011788:Quality of Life