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PURPOSE: The use of phytotherapy is common worldwide and especially in Algeria. This practice was transmitted orally and ritually to treat chronic diseases. Safe extracts of edible plants can provide a resource of structurally diverse molecules that can effectively interfere with multifactorial diseases, such as diabetes mellitus. The objective of this work is to study the biochemical parameters of diabetic populations who consume medicinal plants. METHODS: This study involved 100 T2D subjects, recruited over a five-month period via a questionnaire containing anthropometric information: sex, age, age of diabetes, type of diabetes, plants consumed. Recruited patients were recalled for further examination of the biochemical record (fasting glucose, glycated hemoglobin, total cholesterol, triglycerides, creatinine, ASL and ASP). RESULTS: We found that diabetic patient associated with prescribed medical treatment uses the medicinal plants. This use is strongly predominant by women in both populations with 76% of them using herbal medicine. 58% of diabetics under herbal medicine had slightly unbalanced diabetes with HbA1c > 7. The difference between the total cholesterol, ASL and ASP parameters of the two populations was not significant. The study of correlation showed that the consumption of plant had an effect on the type of correlation between biochemical parameters of diabetic patients. CONCLUSIONS: The consumption of medicinal plants did not affect the values of the measured biochemical parameters, while the correlation between these parameters can be modified.
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In Algeria, diabetes mellitus is a public health problem and it is strongly associated with lower levels of physical activity, increasing obesity rates, an ageing population, unhealthy lifestyle and eating habits. In this study, we performed a transversal investigation on 100 patients with diabetes type 2 and 10 controls with no clinical history of diabetes. A questionnaire was developed with the anthropometric data and biochemical following values: fasting blood glucose (GLU), total cholesterol (TCHOL), triglycerides (TRG), high-density lipoproteins (HDL-C) and glycosylated hemoglobin (GHbA1c) and calculated levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL-C). We describe further the characteristics of lipid parameters in the study population. To this end, we analyzed the data using descriptive statistics by mean and standard deviation. According to our results, a female predominance was recorded in our population with a high breakdown for the age group between 51 and 71 years. The average blood glucose was 206â¯mg/dl, and the average glycated hemoglobin was 8.2%. The majority of diabetic patients had a lipid profile considered normal. 60% of the patients had cholesterol values less than 200â¯mg/dl; 57.7% had TG values less than 150â¯mg/dl; 54% had HDL-C values more than 40â¯mg/dl and 87.5% had LDL-C values less than 160â¯mg/dl. Our study shows that the lipid profile of a diabetic population of the Tlemcen region is normal and has no lipid abnormality. It is different from that in the West, where the lipid profile is lower but at inferior proportions.
