PARAMETERS OF OXIDATIVE STRESS IN PATIENTS WITH DIABETES

Abstract

Patients with diabetes show an increase in oxidative stress, the more pronounced, the more metabolic imbalance is greater. Oxidative stress is an imbalance between the antioxidant and prooxidative reactions, the balance is tilted in favor of prooxidative. Oxidative stress is more marked in diabetic patients who show a poor metabolic control. This will lead in time to a worsening in proteins, lipids and carbohydrates structures, generating a series of pathophysiological processes that will contribute to the emergence and rapid evolution of chronic degenerative complications of diabetes.