a six-month supplementation of mulberry, korean red ginseng, and banaba decreases biomarkers of systemic low-grade inflammation in subjects with impaired glucose tolerance and type 2 diabetes六个月补充的桑树,韩国红参,大花紫薇减少生物标志物的系统性与葡萄糖耐量受试者的慢性炎症和2型糖尿病.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Volume 2012, Article ID 735191, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2012/735191 Research Article A Six-Month Supplementation of Mulberry, Korean Red Ginseng, and Banaba Decreases Biomarkers of Systemic Low-Grade Inflammation in Subjects with Impaired Glucose Tolerance and Type 2 Diabetes H.-J. Kim,1 K.-H. Yoon,2 M.-J. Kang,2 H.-W. Yim,3 K.-S. Lee,4 V. Vuksan,5 and M.-K. Sung1 1 Department of Food and Nutrition, Sookmyung Women’s University, Yongsan-gu, Seoul 140-742, Republic of Korea 2 Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital The Catholic University of Korea, Seocho-gu, Seoul 137-701, Republic of Korea 3 Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital The Catholic University of Korea, Seocho-gu, Seoul 137-701, Republic of Korea 4 Korea Ginseng Manufacturing Plant, National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, Chung-buk 368-811, Republic of Korea 5 Clinical Nutrition Risk Factor Modification Center, St. Michael’s Hospital and, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5C 1N8 Correspondence should be addressed to M.-K. Sung, mksung@sm.ac.kr Received 5 October 2011; Revised 19 December 2011; Accepted 20 December 2011 Academic Editor: Cheorl-Ho Kim Copyright © 2012 H.-J. Kim et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We sought the long-term efficacy of traditionally used antidiabetic herbs in controlling blood glucose homeostasis and low-grade inflammation. Ninety-four subjects with either impaired glucose tolerance or mild T2D were randomized eith