Anthropometric traits and aging: A cross-sectional survey in diabetic elderly women

The aim of this cross-sectional study was to identify the peculiar anthropometric changes in elderly diabetic women aged 70 years and above. The subjects were 91 women suffering from type-2 diabetes and 101 healthy female controls; all these 192 North-Italian women were aged 70 years or over. Eight anthropometric measurements were collected for each subject. We observed significant anthropometric differences between diabetic women and controls. The changes with aging were more evident in women suffering from type-2 diabetes than in controls of the same age groups. In conclusion, the diabetic women are more in overweight than the controls. Moreover, diabetes resulted associated with an accelerated process of aging in anthropometric traits.