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In 1959, at the VIII Congress of the Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine Society which was held during the 60th Congress of the Internal Medicine Italian Society, Greppi1 and his colleagues presented a report on “Senile Diabetes”, in which hereditary, constitutional, endocrine, metabolic, vascular and therapeutic aspects were highlighted. It is significant that in a period when there still were nosographic uncertainties and at the beginning of therapy wirh oral hypoglycemic agents, these veteran gerontologists had already drawn the attention to a problem which still today presents controversial aspects.
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Feruglio, F.S. (1984). Long Term Treatment with Oral Antidiabetics. In: Barbagallo-Sangiorgi, G., Exton-Smith, A.N. (eds) Aging and Drug Therapy. Ettore Majorana International Science Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2791-2_16
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