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The complications of diabetes are important for two reasons: (1) many of them are, up to a point, preventable by strict control of diabetes, and (2) their consequences, such as blindness, kidney failure, and lower limb amputation, are obvious causes of major disability. This is the most important reason, apart from the control of symptoms, for attempting a strict control of diabetes in elderly diabetic patients. In the elderly patient, however, the significance of the complications may be difficult to assess because it is not easy to disentangle them from the other causes of similar states of affairs.
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Caird, F. I. (1980) Management of Diabetes and Its Complications in Metabolic and Nutritional Disorders in the Elderly, (eds A. N. Exton-Smith and F. I. Caird) Wright, Bristol, pp. 161–179.
Kennedy, H. and Caird, F. I. (1986) Diabetic retinopathy in The Eye and its Disorders in the Elderly, (eds J. Williamson and F. I. Caird) Wright, Bristol, pp. 101–110.
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Caird, F.I. (1990). Complications of Diabetes. In: Kesson, C.M., Knight, P.V. (eds) Diabetes in Elderly People. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3322-5_12
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