Effect of extra virgin olive oil consumption on glycemic control: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Fereshteh Dehghani Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases Articles in Press E-mail Alert - February 24, 2021
Highlights
• Extra virgin olive oil is composed mainly of fatty acids, but also bioactive ingredients.
• This systematic review and meta-analysis included thirteen randomized control trials evaluated the effect of EVOO on glycemic parameters.
• High phenolic EVOO does not change glycemic parameters.
Aims
Several health benefits is contributed to extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO). The polyphenol fraction of EVOO may be responsible for its cardioprotective impacts. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to investigate the effect of EVOO intake on glycemic parameters. Electronic literature searched through 1 st September 2020 across MEDLINE/PubMed, Web of Science, and SCOPUS databases to find all clinical trials that reported the effect of EVOO intake on glycemic parameters [FBS(fasting blood glucose), Insulin, HOMA-IR (Homeostatic Model Assessment for Insulin Resistance) and HbA1c (Glycated hemoglobin)] vs. control.
Data Synthesis
We pooled standard mean differences (SMD) and 95% CI’s from RCTs using random-effects models. Heterogeneity was assessed by Cochran Q-statistic and quantified (I 2). We found 13 related trials comprising a total of 633 subjects. In pooled analysis EVOO intake had no effect on FBS (SMD: −0.07; 95% CI: −0.20, 0.07; I 2 = 00.0%), insulin (SMD: −0.32; 95% CI: −0.70, 0.06; I 2 = 38.0%) and HOMA-IR (SMD: −0.32; 95% CI: −0.75, 0.10; I 2 = 51.0%). However, a decreasing trend was observed in these effects. Subgroup analysis based on age, health status, dose, and EVOO intake duration also did not significantly change results.
Conclusion
Although EVOO seems a promising hypoglycemic effects, but we did not found any significant evidence that EVOO consumption impacts glucose homeostasis. Furthermore, well-designed RCTs with longer durations are still needed to evaluate the EVOO’s efficacy on glycemic parameters.