Diabetes News, CoQ10 Helps Blood Vessel Health

Where to begin...... Awe "diabetes" it has plagued my family for years sometimes I forget that it impacts 24 million Americans and their families and the cost of health care stupid amount of money it effect young and old all the same. The funny think about diabetes it is common miss diagnose and this cost our health-care system close to 2 billion dollars a year, just think One out of every five health care dollars is spent caring for someone with diagnosed diabetes and the one out of ten is spent on people who have diabetes. As we all know  or should know this is an diease and it and all dieases come with health risks diabetes comes in the form of permanent disability, heart disease, stroke, blindness, chronic kidney disease, and amputations.  But the good news is that they are trying to find cures or make it irrelevant. In a recent study I read on the Internet that Coenzyme Q10 may help with blood vessel health in diabetics.

In this recent finding they took  23 patients who had been determine  they had  type 2 diabetes around 8 years and taking statin prescription drugs received either 200 mg per day of CoQ10 or placebo for 12 weeks. The researchers measured the ability of a blood vessel in the arm (the brachial artery) to relax (called “Flow Mediated Dilation” (FMD) as well as two markers of cell damage called Plasma-2-isoprostanes and 20-HETE. The researchers found that by the end of 12 weeks, those in the CoQ10 group had a 31% increase in FMD (3.2% FMD after supplementation compared to 2.2% FMD before supplementation). Those in the placebo group had a 5% decrease in FMD (2.1% after the study compared to 2.2% FMD before the study). Although the researchers did not find any changes in the two markers of cell damage, they believe that CoQ10 can help increase FMD by helping reduce cell damage due to previous research showing CoQ10 to increase activity of an antioxidant in cells called SOD (4).

For the researchers, “CoQ10 supplementation improved [blood vessel function] in statin-treated type 2 diabetic patients, possibly by altering local [blood vessel cell damage]. To me any NeWS is good news when it come to finding a cure or how to live a longer and healthier life style with diabetes.