Do complementary agents lower HbA1c when used with standard type 2 diabetes therapy?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 336-338

  Moona, Monique M ^a   Smits, Richard ^a   Kertesz, Joseph ^a   Meyer, Albert ^a   Mackler, Leslie ^b  

^a NEW HANOVER REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Moses Cone Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; CINNAMON EXTRACT; CONJUGATED LINOLEIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; PLACEBO; PLANT EXTRACT; SAFFLOWER OIL; SILYBUM MARIANUM EXTRACT; SWEET POTATO EXTRACT; TRIGONELLA FOENUM GRAECUM EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRACE ELEMENT;

AGE; BODY MASS; CINNAMON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNICITY; FENUGREEK; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NOTE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEX DIFFERENCE; SILYBUM MARIANUM; SWEET POTATO; BLOOD; CINNAMOMUM ZEYLANICUM; PHYTOTHERAPY; REVIEW; TRIGONELLA;

CHROMIUM; CINNAMOMUM ZEYLANICUM; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; IPOMOEA BATATAS; MILK THISTLE; PHYTOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SAFFLOWER OIL; TRACE ELEMENTS; TRIGONELLA;

EID: 84903437307     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: 15337294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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