[Anemic syndrome in elderly patients with diabetic angiopathy: incidence rate, laboratory diagnosis].

Anemic syndrome rate in diabetic angiopathy reaching 1/3 in elderly patients, frequency increases after 70 years. The anemic syndrome rate in patients older 60 years suffering from the diabetes mellitus of the 1 type, complicated by "diabetic foot" syndrome and in cases with duration of the disease more than 10 years is elevated. In diabetic angiopathy anemia can be normo- or hypochromic or followed by aniso- or poykilocytosis. Among the causes of anemia in patients with diabetic angiopathies the important place is occupied by mediated by oxidative stress, endotoxicosis and protein glycation prolong hyperglycemia effect on the morphofunctional properties of the red blood cells.