The Journal of Middle East and North Africa Sciences

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Authors: Haneen M. Al_Qhwaizi; Nawar Muneer Aljanabi; Jumana A. Alanbari; Agmal K. Galil

In our research, we try to explore the relationship between diabetes mellitus and iron deficiency anemia. Anemia can lead to a false elevation in HbA1c in non-diabetic people. In addition, patients with diabetes who had anemia have an unfavorable effect on the quality of life and affect disease progression which increases the risk of micro and macrovascular complications. We searched in PubMed electronic database and included articles only that were published as a full free-text in the last six years and we excluded the articles that were written in languages other than English. We reviewed the articles and found there is a relation between D.M in developing IDA, Studies showed that controlling blood glucose with insulin shows more benefits than oral antidiabetics in reducing the possibility to develop and progress micro and macrovascular complications especially IDA by decreasing the rate of developing chronic kidney diseases. Also, RAS inhibitors (ACE inhibitors and ARBs) reduce the prevention and reduce the progression of renal complications development in diabetic patients.