@Article{, title={Assessment of the Alteration of Blood Indices in Patients with Type 2 Diabetic Mellitus: A Cross‑Sectional Study}, author={Mohammad Hasan Ali and Abeer J. Hassan}, journal={Mustansiriya Medical Journal مجلة المستنصرية الطبية}, volume={18}, number={1}, pages={24-29}, year={2019}, abstract={Background: The prevalence of diabetes mellitus has a major impact on national and global health. Diabetes, a noncommunicable disease,was considered one of the top ten causes of death. Diabetic patients with chronic hyperglycemia have increased risk of macrovascularand microvascular complications in the long term. Diabetes is associated with an increased risk for morbidity from anemia which leads todysfunction and structural change in all formed elements. Objective: This study focused on the alteration of blood parameters in diabetic patientscompared with healthy controls. Materials and Methods: This is a comparative study including 230 patients treated at a specialized center forendocrinology and diabetes from December 2017 to January 2018. Of the total 230 diabetic patients enrolled in this study, 46 were male and 184were female, their age range was 20–70 years, and they were compared with 100 healthy individuals that served as control group. Aquestionnairewas administered as data collection form. Body mass index was estimated. Fasting blood glucose, HbA1c, and formed element indices werelaboratory investigated and analyzed by using autohematology analyzer (Huroba ABX). Data were statistically analyzed using SPSS softwareversion 17. Results: The results of the current study revealed that there were statistically significant differences in blood parameters such as redblood cell (RBC) and white blood cell (WBC) count, mean cell volume (MCV) level, and red cell distribution width (RDW) level (P ≤ 0.05),whereas no significant differences were recorded in RBC (hemoglobin, hematocrit, mean cell hemoglobin [MHC], and MCH concentration)and platelet (platelet count, MPV, and PDW) parameters (P ≥ 0.05) when compared with the control group. Conclusions: The present studyconcluded that blood parameters such as RBCs, MCV, RDW, and WBCs are significantly higher among diabetic patients.

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