Results

Clinical and anthropometric characteristics of the study population

Forty-four subjects with type 2 diabetes were enrolled in this study; 43 of them completed the 8 weeks’ intervention. Exclusion from the study were none-compliance of study. The baseline physical and medical characterization of subjects are detailed in Table1 . As indicated, no statistically significant difference was observed in terms of basic characteristics including age, gender, the body mass index (BMI), diabetes duration, basal metabolic rate (BMR), total body fat, visceral body fat, oral antidepressant drugs, and oral glucose lowering drugs between the two 8mg ASX or placebo groups.