糖尿病是一种胰岛素相对或绝对不足所致糖代谢紊乱性疾病,也是老年人一种慢性病,老年人发病较多。Ⅰ型糖尿病较少见,且诊断不难,Ⅱ型即非胰岛素依赖型,临床多见。由于Ⅱ型糖尿病三多一少症状不明显或者无症状,病人很少主动或及时就医,甚至以并发症为首诊才发现是糖尿病。有时在建立诊断初就已存在一种或多种并发症。 我院1993～1994年12月发现老年糖尿病114 Diabetes mellitus is a disorder of glucose metabolism caused by the relative or absolute lack of insulin. It is also a chronic disease of the elderly and more often occurs in the elderly. Type I diabetes is rare, and the diagnosis is not difficult, type II is non-insulin-dependent, clinical more common. Because of type II diabetes more than a few symptoms are not obvious or asymptomatic, patients rarely take the initiative or timely medical treatment, and even the first diagnosis of complications was found to be diabetes. Sometimes one or more complications have already existed at the beginning of the diagnosis. Our hospital from 1993 to December 1994 found that elderly diabetes 114