Diabetes Mellitus and Nutritional Supplements
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Diabetes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 October 2024 | Viewed by 52
Special Issue Editors
Interests: diabetic neuropathy; new technologies in diabetes; diabetes mellitus type 1; diabetes mellitus type 2; insulin treatment; nutritional supplements in DM
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2. Institute for Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases (IDM) of the Helmholtz Centre Munich, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Interests: prevention and therapy of type 2 diabetes; role of adiposity and body fat distribution; fat accumulation in the liver (fatty liver, NAFLD) in the pathogenesis of diabetes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Medical nutritional therapy is fundamental in preventing or managing existing diabetes and preventing or slowing its complications. The American Diabetes Association consensus report also suggests that nutrition is critical for the overall diabetes management. Nutritional supplements are central to such strategies and, in many cases, are an integral part of the antidiabetic management, constituting perhaps the most relevant part of diabetes prevention programs and a continuously integrated part of diabetes therapy. In addition, many consumers believe that dietary supplements are safer and possibly more effective than drugs to treat diabetes. However, the aggregated studies suggest little clinical evidence for using nutritional supplements (e.g., vitamins and minerals) to reduce or control diabetes. Diabetes mellitus is well known to be a significant global health issue, affecting some 500 million people or about 10% of the adult population worldwide. DM may finally lead to a cascade of complications such as diabetic nephropathy, diabetic eye diseases, and diabetic foot. This Special Issue examines the efficacy and possibility of select dietary supplements (i.e., proteins, branched-chain amino acids, creatine, vitamin D, and vitamin B12) for managing T2D and its complications. These nutritional supplements appear to show promise for individuals with T2D, but further research, especially long-term RCTs, is needed before consensus on the efficacy of these select supplements for individuals with T2D can be achieved for any intervention used in clinical practice, which can positively impact patient outcomes and reduce health care utilization. All these topics are potential objectives of our Special Issue, “Diabetes Mellitus and Nutritional Supplements”, in which we cordially invite all of you, clinicians and researchers, to submit your scientific work, either as original or review articles.
Prof. Dr. Triantafyllos Didangelos
Dr. Konstantinos Kantartzis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- vitamins
- saturated fatty acids
- unsaturated fatty acids
- proteins
- minerals
- diabetes
