ISSN: 2228-5881 eISSN: 2251-7308

Adv Pharm Bull. 2015;5(4): 507-514. doi: 10.15171/apb.2015.069

PMID: 26819923 PMCID: PMC4729356

Original Research

A Combination of Prebiotic Inulin and Oligofructose Improve Some of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Women with Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

Akbar Aliasgharzadeh ¹, Mohammad Khalili ², Elham Mirtaheri ³, Bahram Pourghassem Gargari ³, Farnaz Tavakoli ¹, Mahdieh Abbasalizad Farhangi ⁴, Hossein Babaei ⁵, Parvin Dehghan ⁶ *

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