Background: Diabetes mellitus is a major health problem in today's world. There are two forms of diabetes, type 1 and type 2, with type 2 being more common. The incidence of type 2 diabetes (SB2) is higher in overweight or obese people and increases with age, but today more and more children and adolescents are developing SB2 due to inadequate lifestyle choices. Diabetes can have serious consequences, causing damage to many organs and tissues of the body. For this reason, researchers are trying to develop alternative herbal dietary supplements, such as phytoalexin resveratrol, to complement existing therapeutic drugs for the prevention and treatment of SB2.
Aim: The aim of this master's thesis is to systematically review and investigate the effect of resveratrol supplementation on diabetic parameters in adults with SB2 and to assess whether it is reasonable to use resveratrol as a dietary supplement in type 2 diabetes.
Methods: We searched the Web of Science, PubMed and Google Scholar databases for research using predefined search strings. We followed PRISMA guidelines to select the most relevant articles and limited ourselves to articles published in English. We included studies that reported on at least one of the selected diabetic parameters.
Results: We included 16 studies that met the inclusion factors in our systematic review and 13 studies that were randomly selected. We first analysed them according to the year of publication, then according to the country in which the survey was conducted, and then according to the survey design. We then present the main characteristics of each survey in two tables. They were divided according to sex, according to the use of resveratrol in diabetics and non-diabetics, and according to the health status of the participants. Most studies reported a positive effect of resveratrol in glycaemic control and improvement of insulin resistance and insulin sensitivity, while some studies described a non-significant effect of resveratrol on diabetic parameters. Most of the subjects included in the studies tolerated resveratrol well and no serious side effects were reported.
Conclusion: Research results report that resveratrol may be a potential choice for treating diabetes, lowering insulin resistance and improving diabetic parameters, but more high-quality randomised clinical trials with larger numbers of subjects and longer intervention times are needed to confirm these findings.
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