[Morphometric and biochemical analysis of erythrocytes in smoking patients with late vascular complications of diabetes mellitus].

The following phenomena are observed in patients with late vascular complications of diabetes mellitus (DM): the smoking habit alters the quantitative and morpho-functional characteristics of the erythron cells; it inhibits the lipid peroxidation processes in the erythrocytes membranes and aggravates the clinical course of endotoxicosis, which has a pathological impact on the rheological blood properties and worsens the tissues' hypoxia. A correlation was found between the pronouncement degree of anemic syndrome in diabetic angiopathies, on the one hand, and smoking, on the other hand. Smoking was found in patients with diabetic angiopathies to be a factor enhancing the metabolic stress, early signs of vascular complications and a risk of developing the anemic syndrome.