Diabetes is a disease that weakens the body, recently a relationship between hip fracture and diabetes has been observed.
If the old man is diabetic they have even more risk;According to WHO, 1.6% fall more than non -diabetics, with a 2% increase in physical damage.Likewise, 35% of the diabetic elders collapsed have already fallen on multiple occasions.
This relationship between diabetes and hip fracture is because diabetes produces polyneuropathy, which involves blood vessels and affects balance, leg sensitivity which makes the old man less possibility of dodging an obstacle and falling.
Another of the factors of the falls and hip fractures in the diabetics is that the elderly with this disease also suffer from dysautonomy, which makes the blood tension be unbalanced at standing and fall.
The loss of vision due to diabetic retinopathy, caused by the deterioration of the blood vessels that irrigate the retina, or by other eye diseases, causes that "the old man sees badly, stumbles and falls more," said Marta Isabel Castro Rodríguez, specialist in specialist inGeriatrics of the University Hospital of Getafe (Madrid).
