Creatine in type 2 diabetes: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 770-778

  Gualano, Bruno ^a,b   De Salles Painneli, Vitor ^a   Roschel, Hamilton ^a   Artioli, Guilherme Giannini ^a   Neves, Manoel ^a   De Sá Pinto, Ana Lúcia ^a   Da Silva, Maria Elizabeth Rossi ^a   Cunha, Maria Rosária ^a   Otaduy, Maria Concepción García ^a   Da Costa Leite, Claudia ^a   Ferreira, Júlio César ^a   Pereira, Rosa Maria ^a   Brum, Patrícia Chakur ^a   Bonfá, Eloisa ^a   Lancha Jr , Antonio Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Av Mello de Moraes   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Creatine supplementation; exercise training; therapeutic effects; type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

CREATINE; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C PROTEIN, HUMAN; LIPID;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CALORIC INTAKE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CREATINE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENERGY INTAKE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOSPHOCREATINE;

EID: 79955406420     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181fcee7d     Document Type: Article

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