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# Vitamin E, C help postmenopausal women with diabetes mellitus
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/vitamin_e_c_diabetes_mellitus_1116121200/
- Published: 2012-11-16T00:59:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T15:59:31.000Z
- Description: Rosin Day and Sapna Smith La report in the International Journal of Current Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research that vitamin C and E supplements reduced oxidative stress and raised antioxidant enzyme levels in postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes. Vitamin E worked better.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Nutrition, #vivvo-import

By David Liu, PHD

Friday Nov 16, 2012 (foodconsumer.org) -- Taking antioxidants like vitamin E and vitamin C supplements may help postmenopausal women who have diabetes mellitus, according to a new study in International Journal of Current Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research. Those who do not want to take dietary supplements may want to have high intake of dietary antioxidants from fruit and vegetables.

Rosin Day and Sapna Smith La of Bheem Rao Ambedkar Medical College, Gorkhpur found that vitamin E and vitamin C supplements can help reduce oxidative stress in postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Postemopausal women have to face increased oxidative stress because their serum levels of estrogen have been lowered. Estrogen has an antioxidantive effect on low-density lipoproteins. Also diabetes mellitus is a degenerative disease increasing the production of free radicals, according to the authors. 

For these reasons, the study was intended to examine the effect of antioxidants vitamin E and vitamin C on the oxidative stress markers and antioxidant enzyme levels in postmenopausal women with or without type 2 diabetes.

For this study, the researchers analysed blood samples of menopausal women with or without diabetes mellitus who were patients of different hospitals of Allahabad and estimated serum antioxidant enzyme-glutathionine reductase, superoxide dismutase and catalase. 

The researchers found supplementation of vitamin C and vitamin E reduced the oxidative stress and increased serum antioxidant enzyme levels and vitamin E was found more effective than vitamin C in fighting oxidative stress in postmenopausal women with diabetes mellitus.