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Three months of melatonin treatment reduces insulin sensitivity in patients with type 2 diabetes-A randomized placebo-controlled crossover trial.

Journal of pineal research2022The record

3 findings · 1 compound · 3 endpoints · 3 null

What it reported

How to read these marks

Every finding here is a null result.

What did not

3 findings

  • melatonin — no detected effect on lumbar spine bone mineral density

    Evidence strength: limited.FindingNull result
    “Total fat content, total lean body mass, body weight, total bone mineral content, total bone mineral density (BMD), lumbar spine BMD, and total hip BMD were not significantly different after M compared with P (Table 2).”
    Quoted verbatim from Three months of melatonin treatment reduces insulin sensitivity in patients with type 2 diabetes-A randomized placebo-controlled crossover trial..
    Study
    crossover
    Duration
    3 months
    Dose
    10 mg melatonin 1 h before bedtime for 12 weeks
    Population
    Seventeen men with type 2 diabetes on stable antidiabetic, antihypertensive and lipid-lowering therapy; double-blind placebo-controlled crossover; whole-body DEXA at end of each 12-week period; secondary endpoint

    Three months of melatonin treatment reduces insulin sensitivity in patients with type 2 diabetes-A randomized placebo-controlled crossover trial.2022PMID:3561922110.1111/jpi.12809Permalink

  • melatonin — no detected effect on pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index global score

    Evidence strength: very limited.FindingNull result
    “There were no significant effects of melatonin on daytime sleepiness or sleep quality measured with ESS (p =.84) or PSQI (p =.11), respectively, but a small shift towards eveningness type was seen after melatonin treatment compared with placebo measured with MEQ (difference −2.3 [−3.7 to −0.9], p =.0036) (Table 4).”
    Quoted verbatim from Three months of melatonin treatment reduces insulin sensitivity in patients with type 2 diabetes-A randomized placebo-controlled crossover trial..
    Study
    crossover
    Duration
    3 months
    Dose
    10 mg melatonin 1 h before bedtime for 12 weeks
    Population
    Seventeen men with type 2 diabetes on stable antidiabetic therapy; double-blind placebo-controlled crossover, measured on the study day at the end of each 12-week period; secondary endpoint

    Three months of melatonin treatment reduces insulin sensitivity in patients with type 2 diabetes-A randomized placebo-controlled crossover trial.2022PMID:3561922110.1111/jpi.12809Permalink

  • melatonin — no detected effect on lean body mass

    Evidence strength: very limited.FindingNull result
    “Total fat content, total lean body mass, body weight, total bone mineral content, total bone mineral density (BMD), lumbar spine BMD, and total hip BMD were not significantly different after M compared with P (Table 2).”
    Quoted verbatim from Three months of melatonin treatment reduces insulin sensitivity in patients with type 2 diabetes-A randomized placebo-controlled crossover trial..
    Study
    crossover
    Duration
    3 months
    Dose
    10 mg melatonin 1 h before bedtime for 12 weeks
    Population
    Seventeen men with type 2 diabetes on stable antidiabetic, antihypertensive and lipid-lowering therapy; double-blind placebo-controlled crossover; whole-body DEXA at end of each 12-week period; secondary endpoint

    Three months of melatonin treatment reduces insulin sensitivity in patients with type 2 diabetes-A randomized placebo-controlled crossover trial.2022PMID:3561922110.1111/jpi.12809Permalink