Clinical Analysis of Diabetes Mellitus Complicating with Pneumonia in Old People.
- VernacularTitle:老年2型糖尿病患者合并肺炎的临床分析
- Author:
Junying LIU
;
Pengying LIU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Aged people;
Type-2 diabetes mellitus;
Pneumonia
- From:
Journal of Medical Research
2006;0(01):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To investigate the clinical features of diabetes mellitus complicating with pneumonia in old people,and to improve the diagnose and treatment tactics.Methods In this retrospective analysis,the symptom of respiratory tract,body temperature,hemogram,radiologic characteristics,etiologic characteristics,the use of antibiotic and the course of disease of 30 old patients T2DM complicated by pneumonia and 34 the aged with pneumonia were compared.Results There were statistically significant differences in the use of drug and the course of disease among the two intervention groups.By contrast,the incidence of the symptom of respiratory tract,body temperature,hemogram,main etiologic agents,and the radiologic characteristics,such as empyema did not show significant differences in this investigation.Conclusions The keys to treating diabetes mellitus complicated by pneumonia are the severe control of blood glucose,application of two or more than two effective antibiotics.And the former,s course is longer.
