Analysis of the Effects of Different Dietary Interventions on Management of Diabetes Mellitus-a meta-analysis

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus has become one of the most prevalent metabolic disorders worldwide. For the management of diabetes mellitus, many dietary interventions have been proposed. However, each management process has some limitations. Therefore, we performed a meta-analysis on the various widely utilized dietary interventions to overcome the problems associated with diabetes mellitus and their management. Information was extracted from earlier reports for the Low-carbohydrates diet, Mediterranean diet, and low-glycaemic index diet. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were used to select the relevant studies and data was extracted based on selected variables. We calculated the combined mean for pooled effect and compared the effects. On the basis of observations on the mean reductions in selected diabetic variables, our study has proposed a well-suited and effective moderate carbohydrate diet having food of low-glycemic index that could help in the better management of diabetes mellitus.