[Diabetes mellitus in advanced old age. 3. Cardiovascular risk patterns in long-term diabetics who have grown old compared to newly detected cases of late-onset diabetics].

The investigation of each 131 long term diabetics of 60 years and older (average: 71 years) with a mean diabetes duration of 19.7 years with respect to the presence of 5 classical risk factors of the "metabolic syndrome" yielded a significant more seldom appearance of hypertension and overweight (p less than 0.01) in comparison to newly detected old age diabetics (group comparison done with the principle of biostatical gemini forming), while the frequencies of hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia and hyperuricemia didn't differ in the two groups. Though the cardio-vascular risk profile of the long term diabetics (mean value: 2.28 risk factors per patient) shows more favourable with this (selection by overmortality of diabetics with several risk factors already with shorter disease duration?) than with newly detected diabetic patients (mean value: 2.85 risk factors per patient) is demanded on account of the negative influence of the cardiovascular risk factors on the development of macroangiopathy to mind these pathogenic magnitudes of influence also with longer duration of the diabetes stronger than before now in higher ages too.