[acb-diabetics] garlic oil protects against heart disease

[Patricia LaFrance-Wolf]

Garlic Oil Shows Protective Effect against Heart Disease in Diabetes

 

Garlic has "significant" potential for preventing cardiomyopathy, a form of
heart disease that is a leading cause of death in people with diabetes,
scientists

from the Deptartment of Biological Science and Technology, China Medical
University, Taiwan, have concluded in a new study. The report also explains
why

people with diabetes are at high risk for diabetic cardiomyopathy. 

 

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Wei-Wen Kuo, PhD, lead researcher, noted that people with diabetes have at
least twice the risk of death from heart disease as others, with heart
disease

accounting for 80 percent of all diabetes-related deaths. They are
especially vulnerable to a form of heart disease termed diabetic
cardiomyopathy, which

inflames and weakens the heart's muscle tissue. Kuo's group had hints from
past studies that garlic might protect against heart disease in general and

also help control the abnormally high blood sugar levels that occur in
diabetes. But they realized that few studies had been done specifically on
garlic's

effects on diabetic cardiomyopathy. 

 

The scientists fed either garlic oil or corn oil to laboratory rats with
diabetes. Animals given garlic oil experienced beneficial changes associated
with

protection against heart damage. The changes appeared to be associated with
the potent antioxidant properties of garlic oil, the scientists say, adding

that they identified more than 20 substances in garlic oil that may
contribute to the effect. "In conclusion, garlic oil possesses significant
potential

for protecting hearts from diabetes-induced cardiomyopathy," the report
notes. 

 

"Cardiac Contractile Dysfunction and Apoptosis in Streptozotocin-Induced
Diabetic Rats Are Ameliorated by Garlic Oil Supplementation" Michael
Bernstein,

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Sept 29, 2010

 

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