Effects of diet therapy including eiconol on clinical and metabolic parameters in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Alekseeva, R.I.; Sharafetdinov, K.K.; Plotnikova, O.A.; Meshcheriakova, V.A.; Mal'tsev, G.I.; Kulakova, S.N.
Voprosy Pitaniia 69(5): 36-39
2000
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-8833 PMID: 11247166 Document Number: 521641
It was investigated the influence of a diet supplemented with PUFA omega-3 ("Eiconol") on dynamic of basal and postprandial glycemia, blood pressure, lipid levels, parameters of lipid peroxidation in 60 patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Fish oil ("Eiconol") was used as a dietary supplement of PUFA omega-3. The results of investigations indicated that a diet supplemented with "Eiconol" (8 g/day) increased the effect of dietary therapy in correction of essential hypertension and atherogenic lipids. It was not the worsening of the glycemia and activation of lipid peroxidation.