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Mechanisms through which a small protein and lipid preload improves glucose tolerance.
Article in Diabetologia, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02342834 (Mechanisms Through Which a Small Protein and Lipid Preload Improves Glucose Tolerance in Subjects With Impaired Glucose Homeostasis), which is not on this map. Cited by 31 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Mechanisms Through Which a Small Protein and Lipid Preload Improves Glucose Tolerance in Subjects With Impaired Glucose Homeostasis
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 49 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Nutrient intake order on metabolic outcomes in type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Acta diabetologica · 2026Pooled it
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- Thrice daily consumption of a novel, premeal shot containing a low dose of whey protein increases time in euglycemia during 7 days of free-living in individuals with type 2 diabetes.BMJ open diabetes research & care · 2022Trial
- Both Isocarbohydrate and Hypercarbohydrate Fruit Preloads Curbed Postprandial Glycemic Excursion in Healthy Subjects.Nutrients · 2021Trial
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- The insulinotropic effect of a high-protein nutrient preload is mediated by the increase of plasma amino acids in type 2 diabetes.European journal of nutrition · 2019Trial
- Manipulating the sequence of food ingestion improves glycemic control in type 2 diabetic patients under free-living conditions.Nutrition & diabetes · 2016Trial
- Oral glucose absorption is enhanced in early metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease.Diabetologia · 2026Article
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- [Nutrition recommendations for people with diabetes (Update 2026)].Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2026Review
- Sequence of Eating at Japanese-Style Set Meals Improves Postprandial Glycemic Elevation in Healthy People.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Insights in Nutrition to Optimize Type 1 Diabetes Therapy.Nutrients · 2024Review
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- Manipulation of Post-Prandial Hyperglycaemia in Type 2 Diabetes: An Update for Practitioners.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2024Review
- Nutrients and Cardiometabolic Health in Type 2 Diabetes.Nutrients · 2023Article
- New insight of obesity-associated NAFLD: Dysregulated "crosstalk" between multi-organ and the liver?Genes & diseases · 2023Review
- [Nutrition for diabetic patients (Update 2023)].Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2023Article
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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
aims/hypothesisSmall protein or lipid preloads are able to improve glucose tolerance to a different extent and through different and poorly defined mechanisms. We aimed at quantifying the effect of a mixed protein and lipid preload and at evaluating the underlying mechanisms.
methodsVolunteers with normal (NGT, n = 12) or impaired (IGT, n = 13) glucose tolerance and patients with type 2 diabetes (n = 10) underwent two OGTTs coupled to the double glucose tracer protocol, preceded by either 50 g of parmesan cheese, a boiled egg and 300 ml of water, or 500 ml of water. We measured plasma glucose, insulin, C-peptide, glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP), pancreatic polypeptide (PP), NEFA and glucose tracers, and calculated glucose fluxes, beta cell function variables, insulin sensitivity and clearance.
resultsAfter the nutrient preload, the OGTT-induced rise of plasma glucose was lower than after water alone in each study group. This reduction—more pronounced across classes of glucose tolerance (NGT -32%, IGT -37%, type 2 diabetes -49%; p < 0.002)—was the result of different combinations of slower exogenous glucose rate of appearance, improved beta cell function and reduced insulin clearance, in this order of relevance, which were associated with an only mild stimulation of GIP and GLP-1. CONCLUSIONS/
interpretationAfter a non-glucidic nutrient preload, glucose tolerance improved in proportion to the degree of its baseline deterioration through mechanisms that appear particularly effective in type 2 diabetes. Exploiting the physiological responses to nutrient ingestion might reveal, at least in the first stages of the diabetic disease, a potent tool to improve daily life glycaemic control.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT02342834
fundingThis work was supported by grants from the University of Pisa (Fondi di Ateneo) and by FCT grant (PIC/IC/82956/2007).
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