VITAMIN B12 DEFICIENCY IN CLIMACTERIC WOMEN WITH DIABETES MELLITUS
Abstract
The article highlights the role of B vitamins (including B12) in the treatment of patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) and diabetic polyneuropathy. The importance of diagnostics and therapy of cardiac autonomic neuropathy is updated, ignoring which can serve as a factor worsening the course of DM and the cause of a fatal cardiovascular outcome. Possible mechanisms of vitamin B12 deficiency development in elderly patients and patients with DM are analyzed in detail.
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