Conclusions
death, diabetes
DIABETES
In conclusion, adherence to antidiabetic drug therapy reduced the risk of death in elderly patients with diabetes, regardless of their background clinical conditions. The protective effect of treatment included patients definable as frail because of their high level of comorbidities, previous hospitalizations and short survival in whom in these patients the protective effect of antidiabetic treatment was less than that of patients in better clinical conditions but appreciable at least up to 85 years of age.