Prevalence of five common clinical abnormalities in very elderly people: population based cross sectional study

摘要

As the prevalence of disease rises with age, the number of people with unidentified abnormalities is also likely to increase. We assessed the number of previously known and newly identified patients with anaemia, diabetes mellitus, thyroid dysfunction, atrial fibrillation, and hypertension in a population based sample of 85 year old people.