Effect of a nutritional supplement used for diabetic foot ulcers on microalbuminuria
| Autor: | Patrizio Tatti, Patrizia Di Mauro, Leonardo Masselli, Giuseppe Pipicelli, Annalisa Pipicelli, Annabel E. Barber |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Creatinine Kidney Nutrition and Dietetics business.industry Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Renal function medicine.disease Diabetic foot Gastroenterology Nephropathy Diabetic nephropathy chemistry.chemical_compound medicine.anatomical_structure Endocrinology chemistry Internal medicine Diabetes mellitus medicine Microalbuminuria business Food Science |
| Zdroj: | Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism. 5:67-69 |
| ISSN: | 1973-7998 1973-798X |
| Popis: | We evaluated if a nutritional supplement containing arginine, glutamine, β-hydroxy-β-methyl butyrate commonly used to improve the healing of diabetic foot ulcers had any effect on the kidney function in the diabetic patients. We hypothesized that the action on the skin may be nonspecific and that the supplement might also act on other structural elements of the kidney. We compared the evolution of the blood creatinine and of the overnight albumin excretion in 16 diabetic subjects with mild to moderate nephropathy 6 months prior to and during the 6 months of treatment. The creatinine level remained stable during the treatment, while microalbuminuria decreased to nearly 50% of the initial value (p < 0.000). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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