[Obesity and diabetes in the aged--correlation and relation to some chronic diseases]

The authors analyzed obesity in 1173 persons aged 75+. They were all inhabitants of the same section of the town of Brno, CSFR, 721 of them were diabetic and 452 non-diabetics. The authors concentrated on the internal analysis of both groups regarding obesity; they found it to occur much more frequently among the diabetics (p = 0.005). The difference in obesity occurrence between men and women was found to be significantly higher among diabetic women (p = 0.005). The authors also analyzed the relation of obesity to the occurrence of coronary heart disease, hypertension, cerebrovascular incidents, and chronic pyelonephritis. Higher values were found for both hypertension in obese non-diabetics (p = 0.005) and cerebrovascular incidents in obese diabetics (p = 0.025); other differences were not statistically significant. The authors compared cholesterol levels of both groups; the results are unfavorable for the obese diabetics (Table 2); only the difference between non-obese diabetics and the obese non-diabetics was not statistically significant. The authors also compared treatment regimens for obese and non-obese diabetics. A significant difference was found for diet, by which the non-obese diabetics were more frequently treated (p = 0.05).