Effectiveness of Dichrostachys glomerata Spice Phenolics in Reduction of Oxidative Stress Associated with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes; a Randomized, Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This work evaluated the effect of <em>Dichrostachys glomerata </em>on the improvement of antioxidant biomarkers in obesity and type 2 diabetes participants, in an eight-week randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled design study. The active (400 mg) or placebo formulation were administered twice daily throughout the study period to two normoglycemic and two diabetic obese random groups. Plasma levels of a total of 8 biochemical parameters were taken at the baseline and after 4 and 8 weeks of treatment. No differences in urate variation were observed while the plasma phenolic content as well as the reduced glutathione level, ascorbate concentration, FRAP value and enzymatic antioxidant activities significantly increased with a concomitant reduction of MDA after 8 weeks compared to placebo (P &lt; 0.01). On the contrary to urate and ascorbate, plasma polyphenol content correlated well with FRAP level in both treated groups indicating that phenolics from the spice greatly contributed to the antioxidant activity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.022 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".