PapersPMID:28078249
Effects of Urtica dioica supplementation on blood lipids, hepatic enzymes and nitric oxide levels in type 2 diabetic patients: A double blind, randomized clinical trial.
- findings
- 2
- compound
- 1
- endpoints
- 2
- Study, every finding
- RCT · 8 weeks
- Dose studied, every finding
- 5 mL three times a day, after each main meal, for 8 weeks
- Population, every finding
- Women over 50 with type 2 diabetes taking metformin and glibenclamide in both arms; 48 completed the trial (24 nettle, 24 placebo)
What moved
How to read these marks →“Patients undergoing post-treatment with U. dioica extract showed significant decrease (p<0.001) in SGPT after 8 weeks as compared to patients undergoing pre-treatment with U. dioica extract and patients using placebo.”
- Interests
- Industry funded
“The result showed that extract of U. dioica increased SOD in the patients undergoing 8 weeks of post-treatment as compared to patients undergoing pre-treatment with U. dioica extract at the beginning of the study and the placebo group.”
- Interests
- Industry funded
Study record
- Design
- randomised controlled trial
- Species
- human
- Population
- 50 women with type 2 diabetes on metformin and glibenclamide, Shahroud, Iran
- Participants
- 50
- Comparator
- placebo
- Duration
- 56 days
- Endpoints measured
- 14