Diabetes Canada Chapter 22: Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Diabetes

Zusammenfassung

KEY MESSAGES: Key Messages Anywhere from 25% to 57% of people with diabetes report using complementary or alternative medicine. Some natural health products have shown a lowering of A1C by >=0.5% in trials lasting at least 3 months in adults with type 2 diabetes, but most are single, small trials that require further large-scale evaluations before they can be recommended for widespread use in diabetes. A few more commonly used natural health products for diabetes have been studied in larger rand

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Fraser Institute, 50% to 79% of Canadians had used at least 1 CAM sometime in their lives, based on surveys from 1997, 2006 and 2016 (2) . The most common types used in 2016 were massage (44%), chiropractic care (42%), yoga (27%), relaxation techniques (25%) and acupuncture (22%). According to the U...

2004. In general, the current level of evidence for the efficacy and safety of NHP in people with diabetes is lower than that for pharmaceutical agents. Trials tend to be of shorter duration and involve smaller sample sizes. Concerns remain about standardization and purity of available compounds, in...

ial of 12 months duration, Tianqi was shown to reduce the progression from IGT to type 2 diabetes by 32% (16) . A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies of omega-3 fatty acids or fish intake showed that an increased intake of alpha linoleic acid (ALA) and fatty fish reduced the...

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