Component
Glycated hemoglobin / HbA1c
Glycated hemoglobin / HbA1c. Species, exposure and limitations are retained in each linked claim.
1 recorded relationships. Experimental role, claim status and evidence remain attached to each record.
How nutrients influence it
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Other things that act on it
Enzymes, hormones, genes, and other components with a recorded effect. These are not nutrients, so they do not count toward the arrows above. Each finding names the chapter that recorded it.
How nutrients reach it in more than one step
Chains of two or more recorded steps that end here, grouped by the nutrient they start from. Each step is a separate finding, so a chain is a route a mechanism could take, not proof that it does.
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What it does
Every recorded relationship this component is part of, grouped by its role. Plain wording comes first; the technical statement follows.
What acts on it
The between-group HbA1c difference favored creatine plus exercise by approximately 1.1 percentage points, with a 95% confidence interval of 0.4–1.9 percentage points lower.
Experimental context and source evidence
- evidence_span
- {"source_cache": "artifacts/creatine-research/20881878.abstract.txt", "locator": "Exact primary indexed abstract; zero-based, end-exclusive Unicode character offsets", "file_sha256": "b3ba6f24e6aedc2c8220a6b50f5d315fc4f885740bc1934cf438cbe0865ace52", "start_char": 0, "end_char": 1736, "text_sha256": "b3ba6f24e6aedc2c8220a6b50f5d315fc4f885740bc1934cf438cbe0865ace52"}
- experimental_model
- Twelve-week randomized double-blind trial with exercise in both arms
- exposure
- Creatine 5 g/day plus exercise versus placebo plus exercise
- limitations
- Small adjunct-to-exercise trial; no replacement for diabetes treatment or isolated creatine effect without exercise is established.
- nutrient_topic
- Creatine research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct dietary effect. · Creatine
- organism
- 25 adults with type 2 diabetes
- plain_language
- Average long-term glucose exposure improved in this small combined-intervention trial.
- primary_references
- [creatine-p20881878] Creatine in type 2 diabetes: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. (2011). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20881878/ DOI: 10.1249/mss.0b013e3181fcee7d
- tissue_or_cell_type
- Blood glucose regulation and muscle GLUT4 localization
Creatine: synthesis, transport, phosphocreatine energetics and nutrient interactions (2026-09-17) · lines 1010–1021
AI-assisted literature curation; primary study URLs and scope retained in the document and extraction. Not publisher full text. · supports · Twelve-week randomized double-blind trial with exercise in both arms · source_derived_draft · unverified_draft
### creatine-diabetes-hba1c The between-group HbA1c difference favored creatine plus exercise by approximately 1.1 percentage points, with a 95% confidence interval of 0.4–1.9 percentage points lower. Condition category: normal nutrient_topic: Creatine research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct dietary effect. plain_language: Average long-term glucose exposure improved in this small combined-intervention trial. organism: 25 adults with type 2 diabetes tissue_or_cell_type: Blood glucose regulation and muscle GLUT4 localization experimental_model: Twelve-week randomized double-blind trial with exercise in both arms limitations: Small adjunct-to-exercise trial; no replacement for diabetes treatment or isolated creatine effect without exercise is established. exposure: Creatine 5 g/day plus exercise versus placebo plus exercise evidence_span: {"source_cache": "artifacts/creatine-research/20881878.abstract.txt", "locator": "Exact primary indexed abstract; zero-based, end-exclusive Unicode character offsets", "file_sha256": "b3ba6f24e6aedc2c8220a6b50f5d315fc4f885740bc1934cf438cbe0865ace52", "start_char": 0, "end_char": 1736, "text_sha256": "b3ba6f24e6aedc2c8220a6b50f5d315fc4f885740bc1934cf438cbe0865ace52"} [creatine-p20881878] Creatine in type 2 diabetes: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. (2011). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20881878/ DOI: 10.1249/mss.0b013e3181fcee7d
Complete structured claim and evidence
The events it takes part in
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Situations it appears in
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In the sources
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Open hypotheses
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