Background: Anemia is a common problem in diabetic patients. Diabetic patients have a greater severity of\r\nanemia as the level of Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) decreases compared to non-diabetic patients. Despite these\r\nfacts, anemia is unrecognized and largely untreated in patients with diabetes in Ethiopia particularly in those\r\npatients attending Fenote Selam Hospital. Therefore, this study was aimed to assess the association of anemia and\r\nrenal function test among diabetes mellitus patients attending Fenote Selam Hospital, North West of Ethiopia.\r\nMethods: An Institutional -based cross-sectional study was conducted from February 2012 to April 2012 on\r\ndiabetes mellitus (DM) patients. Systematic random sampling technique was used to get the total sample size of\r\n384 patients. A total of seven ml of venous blood was collected from diabetes mellitus patients; two ml was\r\ncollected by EDTA anticoagualted vacutainer test tube for haemoglobin determination and 5 ml venous blood was\r\ncollected by plain vacutainer tube for creatinine and Blood urea nitrogen determination. The data were double\r\nentered and analyzed using SPSS-16 statistical software. The degree of association between independent and\r\ndependent variables was assessed using bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis in terms of P-value\r\nand odds ratio with 95% confidence interval.\r\nResults: Out of the total 384 DM patients included in the study 73 (19%) were anemic. Fifty three (13.8%), forty\r\neight (12.5%), and two hundred eighty three (73.7%) DM patients had an estimated GFR <60 ml/min/1.73 m,\r\n60 ââ?¬â?? 90 ml/min/ 1.73 m, and > 90 ml/min/1.73 m respectively. One hundred eleven (28.9%) diabetic patients had\r\nincreased urine albumin level. There was a statistically significant association between anaemia and Glomerular\r\nfiltration rate (P<0.05) with Odds ratio of 8.58 and CI (10.21, 49.94). As the glomerular filtration rate increase, the risk\r\nto be anemic will decrease dramatically.\r\nConclusion: The study showed that there was a significant association between anaemia and Glomerular filtration\r\nrate in DM patients. Therefore, DM patients should be strictly monitored for renal failure and anemia for proper\r\nmanagement of diabetes patients.
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