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Bitter melon effect for diabetes

Title	Outcome parameters	Types of included studies	Findings
Bitter melon effect for diabetes	Blood lipids, atherogenic index, body weight and SBP cholestrol level, glucose level Fasting blood sugar	Out of 6 studies, a total of 4 studies that meet the inclusion criteria were included. All of the included studies are RCT.	Bitter melon had a modest hypoglycemic effect and significantly reduced fructosamine levels from baseline among patients with type 2 diabetes who received 2000mg/day.

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