Scientists from the Centenary Institute in Australia found that changes in levels of certain fats in the blood help predict the effectiveness of lowering blood sugar in people with prediabetes. It was published In the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN).
The study involved 104 people with prediabetes. This is a condition in which blood sugar levels are higher than normal but have not yet reached the levels characteristic of diabetes. Common advice for people with prediabetes is to lose weight through dieting.
During the experiment, all participants followed new dietary recommendations that allowed them to lose at least 8% of their original weight. Scientists set out to find out which people benefited the most from this diet. To do this, they analyzed changes in the concentrations of hundreds of different lipids (fats and fatty acids) in the volunteers’ blood before and after the diet.
It turns out that levels of certain lipids could signal how much participants’ blood sugar levels and weight would drop. For example, some sphingolipids (a type of fat found in cell membranes) have been linked to changes in fasting blood sugar levels, while other lipids have been linked to improvements in markers like hemoglobin A1c, insulin, and insulin resistance.
Identifying these lipid biomarkers could help develop new, effective diabetes prevention strategies for people at risk, the scientists noted.
Earlier scientists was created Hydrogel dressings for the treatment of diabetic wounds.
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Source: Gazeta
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