Extreme family cohesion (too much or too little closeness) was correlated
with plasma glucose level (p < 0.05), in contrast to the common wisdom that balanced family functioning leads to good control of diabetes.
They suppose that mildly
elevated plasma glucose levels in T2DM patients may improve glucose handling by the human heart and thus increase myocardial glucose metabolism.
The sorghum diet had consistently lower after
meal plasma glucose levels than the other diets between 20 and 60 minutes and the glucose levels gradually increased for the remainder of the time points.
They showed through multiple regression analysis that extreme (unbalanced) family cohesion with either too much (enmeshed) or too little (disengaged) functioning was correlated
with plasma glucose levels (p < 0.05).
Higher plasma glucose levels correlated with greater brain activity in executive control centers in the ACC and ventromedial PFC, whereas higher levels of plasma cortisol, but not other hormones, were correlated with greater activation in reward regions, such as the insula and putamen (P < 0.01, corrected), in response to high - calorie food cues.
Presented at the American Diabetes Association's 77th Scientific Sessions, the data suggest that fasting
plasma glucose levels — also called blood sugar levels — could be helpful in determining the type of diet that is most effective for weight management for people with prediabetes or diabetes.
The authors highlight that these sex differences have to be considered before starting metabolically active drugs, because higher
plasma glucose levels were also associated with increased glucose kinetics, in diabetic patients, and this might have clinical relevance especially during ischemia.
Tocotrienols have been shown to reduce blood pressure,
plasma glucose levels, and obesity and improve lipid profiles and therefore protect the heart and liver21.
Plasma glucose levels were measured by an enzymatic reaction using glucose oxidase (YSI Inc).
A variant near MTNR1B is associated with increased fasting
plasma glucose levels and type 2 diabetes risk
Axial brain slices and corresponding scatter plots showing correlations between (A)
plasma glucose levels and VMPFC / ACC response to high - calorie food images; and (B) plasma cortisol levels and left and right insula / striatal response to high - calorie food images.
The results show that extremes of family cohesion with either too many or too few issues related to family functioning are correlated with
the plasma glucose level.