A prospective, observational study was carried out in the medical inpatient department of Dr. Pinnamaneni Siddhartha Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Foundation, which is a tertiary care teaching hospital located in Chinavutapalli, Gannavaram Mandal, Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh state. The study was carried out for the period of three months. Prescriptions contained in 80 case notes of elderly patients diagnosed of Type II DM were consecutively selected and evaluated. Age of the elderly patient was taken as ≥50 years as stated in the WHO definition of an older or elder person. (WHO 2009). A self-designed data collection forms were used to collect data from patient’s case notes. Information collected included Age, Sex, Chief complaints of the patient, Vitals, Past medical and medication history, previous allergies, Co morbidities, laboratory data and prescribed drugs. Data collected was entered into Microsoft Excel for easy sorting and was further analyzed using the same. Chi-square test was applied for some of the parameters by using Graph pad prism 5. P< 0.005 was considered to be significant. In the present study we discussed the results about combination therapy.

Diabetis mellitus, combination therapy, low glycemic levels, comorbities