Use and abuse of dietary supplements in persons with diabetes.

ABSTRACT: The dietary supplement industry has estimated sales of over $30 billion in the US and over $100 billion globally. Many consumers believe that dietary supplements are safer and possibly more effective than drugs to treat diabetes. The sheer volume of the literature in this space makes compiling them into one review challenging, so much so that primarily narrative reviews currently exist. By applying the interactive database supplied by the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health, we identified the top 100 ingredients that appeared most often in dietary supplement products. One-hundred different keyword searches using the ingredient name and the word diabetes were performed using a program developed to automatically scrape PubMed. Each search was retained in a sepa

SUBMITTER: Hannon BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7186221 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature