Will a Spoonful of Cinnamon Help the Diabetes Meds Go Down?

Marlene Busko
Sep 09, 2013

In a new meta-analysis of 10 studies in patients with type 2 diabetes, taking cinnamon supplements improved fasting blood glucose and cholesterol levels, but not glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels.

HbA1c likely was not affected because the studies were too short, and they were also very small and diverse, making it difficult to draw any clinical implications, caution Robert W. Allen (then a PharmD student at Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, California) and coauthors in their paper published September 9 in the Annals of Family Medicine.

Full Story:  http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/810629

Annals of Family Medicine Abstract:  http://www.annfammed.org/content/11/5/452.abstract