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Selenium and diabetes

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2013

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Selenium is involved in diabetes through its anti-oxidant and insulin-like functions. Diabetes depletes selenium status.

However, there is little evidence that giving selenium supplements prevents diabetes, and some evidence that it may increase the risk. RCTs on use of selenium to treat diabetics are lacking. However, any established deficiency should be corrected.

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Arbor Clinical Nutrition Updates , Volume 304 , March 2009, pp. 1 - 3
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