Development mechanisms and clinical significance of anemia in patients with diabetes mellitus

Anemia has an undesirable effect on the quality of life of patients, causes a decrease in working capacity and exercise tolerance, deterioration in sexual and cognitive functions and is accompanied by various symptoms (shortness of breath, dizziness, poor appetite, etc.). Moreover, anemia in diabetic patients predicts an increased risk of adverse outcomes (regardless of the severity of nephropathy) and, apparently, in itself contributes to the progression of micro- and macroangiopathy. However, physicians usually do not attach much importance to anemia in such patients.