Patient management with diabetes mellitus in outpatient practice: prevention and treatment of vascular and neurological complications

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is an actual problem of modern medicine, which is determined, on the one hand, by its high prevalence, on the other, by a high risk of developing microvascular and macrovascular complications. Treatment of patients with DM should be comprehensive and include, along with individually selected glucose-lowering drugs, drugs that can influence the pathogenetic mechanisms of the development of microvascular complications. Microvascular dysfunction and neuropathy are key links in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance, b-cell dysfunction, hyperglycemia, clinical and laboratory manifestations, complications, and comorbid diabetes relationships. The use of drugs with antioxidant properties (dipyridamole, thioctic acid), having a pathogenetic effect and preventing the development of microvascular dysfunction in standard therapeutic doses is pathogenetically justified in patients with DM complicated by diabetic angiopathy and neuropathy.

diabetes mellitus, microvascular complications, diabetic microangiopathy, diabetic neuropathy, microvascular dysfunction, dipyridamole, thioctic acid