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Correspondence to Masakazu Haneda.

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Members of the Japan Diabetes Society (JDS)/Japan Geriatrics Society (JGS) Joint Committee on Improving Care for Elderly Patients with Diabetes are listed in Appendix.

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In 2016, the Japan Diabetes Society (JDS)/Japan Geriatrics Society (JGS) Joint Committee on Improving Care for Elderly Patients with Diabetes published one part of the committee report in “Treatment Guide for Diabetes 2016–2017; 98” (Bunkodo, Tokyo, 2016) and “Practice Guideline for the Treatment for Diabetes in Japan 2016; 447-448” (Nankodo, Tokyo, Japan, 2016) in Japanese. This is the English version of that report and has been jointly published in Diabetology International (the official English journal of the JDS), Geriatrics and Gerontology International (the official English journal of the JGS), and Journal of Diabetes Investigation (the official journal of the Asian Association for the Study of Diabetes).

Members of the JDS/JGS Joint Committee on Improving Care for Elderly Patients with Diabetes. JDS: Masakazu Haneda (Head, Professor Emeritus, Visiting Professor, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan), Nobuya Inagaki (Professor, Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Nutrition, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan), Ryo Suzuki (Assistant Professor, Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan), Hirotaka Watada (Professor, Department of Metabolism and Endocrinology, Juntendo University, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan). JGS: Hideki Ito (Head, C.E.O., Tokyo Metropolitan Hospital and Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan), Atsushi Araki (Executive Director, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Hospital and Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan), Takashi Sakurai (Director, Center for Comprehensive Care and Research on Memory Disorders, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Aichi, Japan), Koutaro Yokote (Professor, Department of Medicine, Chiba University, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan).

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Japan Diabetes Society (JDS)/Japan Geriatrics Society (JGS) Joint Committee on Improving Care for Elderly Patients with Diabetes., Haneda, M. & Ito, H. Glycemic targets for elderly patients with diabetes. Diabetol Int 7, 331–333 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13340-016-0293-8

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