Category: Diabetes

Study: Diabetes Relation between homocysteinaemia and diabetic neuropathy in patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Ambrosch A; Dierkes J; Lobmann R; Kuhne W; Konig W; Luley C; Lehnert H Diabet Med 2001 Mar;18(3):185-92 AIMS: Limited data are available on determinants of diabetic neuropathy as its pathogenesis is multifactorial. Since homocysteine exhibits toxic effects on vascular […] More

Study: Diabetes Double-blind, randomised study of the effect of combined treatment with vitamin C and E on albuminuria in Type 2 diabetic patients. Gaede P; Poulsen HE; Parving HH; Pedersen O Diabet Med 2001 Sep;18(9):756-60 AIMS: Elevated levels of urinary albumin excretion rate (AER) predict high risk for progressing to end-stage renal disease. In streptozotocin-induced […] More

Study: Diabetes Effect of modest vitamin E supplementation on blood glycated hemoglobin and triglyceride levels and red cell indices in type I diabetic patients. Jain SK; McVie R; Jaramillo JJ; Palmer M; Smith T J Am Coll Nutr 1996 Oct;15(5):458-61 OBJECTIVE: The glycation of proteins and elevated triglyceride (TG) levels are two of the major […] More

Study: Diabetes Chronic administration of pharmacologic doses of vitamin E improves the cardiac autonomic nervous system in patients with type 2 diabetes. Manzella D; Barbieri M; Ragno E; Paolisso G Am J Clin Nutr 2001 Jun;73(6):1052-7 BACKGROUND: Type 2 diabetes is associated with elevated oxidative stress and declines in antioxidant defense. The disease is also […] More

Study: Diabetes Vitamin C improves endothelium-dependent vasodilation in patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Ting HH; Timimi FK; Boles KS; Creager SJ; Ganz P; Creager MA J Clin Invest 1996 Jan 1;97(1):22-8 Endothelium-dependent vasodilation is impaired in humans with diabetes mellitus. Inactivation of endothelium-derived nitric oxide by oxygen-derived free radicals contributes to abnormal vascular reactivity in […] More

Study: Diabetes Effects of long-term supplementation with moderate pharmacologic doses of vitamin E are saturable and reversible in patients with type 1 diabetes. Engelen W; Keenoy BM; Vertommen J; De Leeuw I Am J Clin Nutr 2000 Nov;72(5):1142-9 BACKGROUND: Vitamin E supplementation has been proposed as adjunctive therapy to counteract the increased LDL oxidation in […] More

Study: Diabetes A benfotiamine-vitamin B combination in treatment of diabetic polyneuropathy. Stracke H; Lindemann A; Federlin K Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes 1996;104(4):311-6 In a double-blind, randomized, controlled study, the effectiveness of treatment with a combination of Benfotiamine (an Allithiamine, a lipid-soluble derivative of vitamin B1 with high bioavailability) plus vitamin B6/B12 on objective parameters of […] More

Study: Diabetes Effect of niacin on lipid and lipoprotein levels and glycemic control in patients with diabetes and peripheral arterial disease: the ADMIT study: A randomized trial. Arterial Disease Multiple Intervention Trial. Elam MB; Hunninghake DB; Davis KB; Garg R; Johnson C; Egan D; Kostis JB; Sheps DS; Brinton EA JAMA 2000 Sep 13;284(10):1263-70 CONTEXT: […] More

Study: Diabetes Increased risk of non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus at low plasma vitamin E concentrations: a four year follow up study in men. Salonen JT; Nyyssonen K; Tuomainen TP; Maenpaa PH; Korpela H; Kaplan GA; Lynch J; Helmrich SP; Salonen R BMJ 1995 Oct 28;311(7013):1124-7 OBJECTIVE–To investigate whether low vitamin E status is a risk […] More

Study: Diabetes Vitamin E supplementation restores glutathione and malondialdehyde to normal concentrations in erythrocytes of type 1 diabetic children. Jain SK; McVie R; Smith T Diabetes Care 2000 Sep;23(9):1389-94 OBJECTIVE: This study examined the relationship between cellular glutathione and vitamin E concentrations and the effect of vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) supplementation on glutathione and lipid peroxidation […] More