Combination of Metformine/Inulin Versus Metformin on Prostate Benign Hyperplasia in Metabolic Syndrome

Summary

Type 2 diabetes mellitus, insulin resistance, visceral obesity and disorders of lipid metabolism, especially triglyceride and hypertension are metabolic disorders that play a central role in pathophysiology of metabolic syndrome, and ultimately, the cardiovascular morbidity and mortality associated with atherosclerosis, such as myocardial infarction, cerebral vascular events, vascular dementia, heart failure and end stage renal disease. Recently other complications related with hyperinsulinemia like the prostate benign hypertrophy (BPH). Metformin is the treatment of choice in patients with metabolic syndrome, given its low cost and comparable pharmacological effects to the tiazolinedionas (eg pioglitazone), decreasing hyperinsulinemia, insulin resistance, concentration of free fatty acids and triglycerides, also it produces moderate weight loss, improving the metabolic profile triglcerides atherogenic lipid and carbohydrate and delaying the onset of diabetes mellitus in individuals with impaired fasting glucose. A second option for risk reduction would be the addition of inulin fiber type as it has been demonstrated some metabolic effects on benefices lipid metabolism and carbohydrate. It is expected that combination of metformin with inulin produce a beneficial effect through farmacological synergism and the impact on fisiopatological changes of metabolic syndrome that potentially is considered as an important risk factor for prostate growth.

Timeline

Start

2013-01

Primary completion

2015-06

Completion

2015-06

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