Diabetes and l-arginine #2
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Labels: l-arginine, ProArgi-9
posted by Dr. Joe @ 2/03/2008 06:31:00 AM
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This news on L-arginine is great but I read somewhere that this is dangerous if you've already had a heart attack, as I have had. Has anyone heard about this?
The Journal of the American Medical Association had a paper from Johns Hopkins that raised this question. The research was flawed on several bases.
1)The control of the diabetes was “good” but no data given as to what was measured.
2) l-arginine was decreased if the patient had “side effects” and no mention how low the l-arginine went (?500mg?)
3)This study was run by cardiologists, handling patients with diabetes.
I will be visiting my endo next week. I think will bring up the possiblity of me starting L-arginine. I'm a Type 1 diabetic and starting to experience the classic signs of Cardiovascular complications. Where can I print out this article? So I may show my doctor?
Diabetes Care Publish Ahead
Published online October 1, 2007
Diabetes Care 31:121-127, 2008
DOI: 10.2337/dc07-0711
© 2008 by the American Diabetes Association
This is the first article to start to wind in the value of l-arginine in diabetes more than heart disease. The “Advances meeting” in SF last weekend talked a lot about it.
I absolutely could not find the article cited in the PUblish Ahead American Diabetes Assn. Diabetes Care archives. Very frustrating.
Diabetes Care 31:121-127, 2008
I want to take it to my endocrinologist as well.
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