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The role of medicinal plants in the treatment of diabetes: a systematic review

Overview of attention for article published in Electronic Physician, January 2016
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Title
The role of medicinal plants in the treatment of diabetes: a systematic review
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Electronic Physician, January 2016
DOI 10.19082/1832
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Wesam Kooti, Maryam Farokhipour, Zahra Asadzadeh, Damoon Ashtary-Larky, Majid Asadi-Samani

Abstract

Diabetes is a serious metabolic disorder and plenty of medical plants are used in traditional medicines to treat diabetes. These plants have no side effects and many existing medicines are derived from the plants. The purpose of this systematic review is to study diabetes and to summarize the available treatments for this disease, focusing especially on herbal medicine. Required papers about diabetes and effective plants were searched from the databases, including Science direct, PubMed, Wiley, Scopus, and Springer. Keywords in this study are "medicinal plants", "diabetes", "symptom", "herbal", and "treatment". Out of the 490 collected articles (published in the period between 1995 and 2015), 450 were excluded due to non-relevance or lack of access to the original article. Diabetes is mainly due to oxidative stress and an increase in reactive oxygen species that can have major effects. Many plants contain different natural antioxidants, in particular tannins, flavonoids, C and E vitamins that have the ability to maintain β-cells performance and decrease glucose levels in the blood. According to published results, it can be said that medical plants are more affordable and have less side effects compared synthetic drugs, and are more effective in treatment of diabetes mellitus.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
India 1 <1%
Unknown 549 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 69 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 61 11%
Student > Master 40 7%
Researcher 34 6%
Lecturer 22 4%
Other 86 16%
Unknown 238 43%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 87 16%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 62 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 41 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 35 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 18 3%
Other 56 10%
Unknown 251 46%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 September 2020.
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#8,535,684
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Electronic Physician
#89
of 261 outputs
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#129,214
of 402,283 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Electronic Physician
#5
of 19 outputs
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