The Effect of Red Fragon Fruit toward Blood Glucose Levels Decreased

Rostiodertina Girsang, Rentawati Purba, Dewi Tiansa Barus, Nur Mala Sari, Tetty Junita Purba

2019

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus prevalence continues to increase every year, World Health Organization data says about 346 million people suffer from diabetes and Indonesia is ranked fourth in the number of people with diabetes in the world. Diets management of DM patients needs to be modified, especially fibre and antioxidants intake. Dragon fruit can control blood glucose levels so as to prevent complications. The numbers of respondents were 30 people, the sampling technique with purposive sampling. This research was quasi-experimental study with non equivalent control group design. From the study results, average blood glucose levels before treatment 349.73 mg / dl and after 323.27 mg / dl. There is decrease in glucose levels after consuming dragon fruit juice for 14 days because of its fibre and vitamin C content so that DM sufferers have decreased glucose levels up to 29 mg / dl.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Girsang R., Purba R., Barus D., Sari N. and Purba T. (2019). The Effect of Red Fragon Fruit toward Blood Glucose Levels Decreased.In Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Application Technology - Volume 1: ICHIMAT, ISBN 978-989-758-460-2, pages 66-73. DOI: 10.5220/0009463600660073

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ichimat19,
author={Rostiodertina Girsang and Rentawati Purba and Dewi Tiansa Barus and Nur Mala Sari and Tetty Junita Purba},
title={The Effect of Red Fragon Fruit toward Blood Glucose Levels Decreased},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Application Technology - Volume 1: ICHIMAT,},
year={2019},
pages={66-73},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009463600660073},
isbn={978-989-758-460-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Application Technology - Volume 1: ICHIMAT,
TI - The Effect of Red Fragon Fruit toward Blood Glucose Levels Decreased
SN - 978-989-758-460-2
AU - Girsang R.
AU - Purba R.
AU - Barus D.
AU - Sari N.
AU - Purba T.
PY - 2019
SP - 66
EP - 73
DO - 10.5220/0009463600660073