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.