A Clinical Trial on the Glycemic Index of Nutritional Product for Diabetes Mellitus
Nguyen Trong Hung *
National Institute of Nutrition, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Le Thi Hang
National Institute of Nutrition, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Tran Thi Tra Phuong
Nutrition and Sports, Exercise Medicine Centers System – Nutrihome, Vietnam.
Nguyen Thi Diep Anh
National Institute of Nutrition, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Vu Thi Thu Hien
National Institute of Nutrition, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Bui Thi Thuy
National Institute of Nutrition, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Ngo Thi Thu Huyen
National Institute of Nutrition, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Dinh Tran Ngoc Huy
Banking University HCMC, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and International University of Japan, Japan.
Le Thi Tuyet Nhung
Andrologyand Fertility Hospital of Hanoi, Vietnam.
Nguyen Van Thoan
Nam Son Pharmaceutical Limited Company, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Truong Tuyet Mai
National Institute of Nutrition, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Nguyen Hong Truong
National Institute of Nutrition, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Le Danh Tuyen
National Institute of Nutrition, Hanoi, Vietnam.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
In the world as well as in Vietnam, diabetes have shown bad effects and there is increasing number of deaths over years because of diabetes as one of three leading causes of deaths. Penalver et al (2016) stated to achieve good metabolic control in diabetes and keep long term, a combination of changes in lifestyle and pharmacological treatment is necessary.
The type of food tested was Nutritional product (Vietnam). Nutritional product solution with 83.3g diluted in 390 ml water. The food-to-water ratio followed the processing instruction from the manufacturer.
In this study we discover a low GI of nutritional product, as of (48.2 ± 5.3). And also, we found out there is decrease (slow) of responses of mean blood glucose (Nutritional product) after 90 minutes (4.7 mmol/L) till 120 minutes (4.3 mmol/L). As we conduct this paper with younger subjects, comparing to older people, they can regulate blood sugar better.
Finally, we also compare to other previous studies for literature review.
Keywords: Clinical, glycemic index, nutritional product, diabetes mellitus