@article{Munir Salama_Ali Fadlalmola_Mohammed Abdel Hafeez_Ali Mohamed Ahmed_Awad Mohamed_Mohammed Ali Elatta_Adam Mariod_2021, title={Effectiveness of Gum Arabic in Diabetes and its Complications: A Narrative Review}, volume={16}, url={https://knepublishing.com/index.php/SJMS/article/view/9703}, DOI={10.18502/sjms.v16i3.9703}, abstractNote={<p>Gum Arabic (GA) is a gummy exudation from <em>Acacia</em> species, rich in soluble fibers. It is a dietary fiber used traditionally by the natives of many countries of the Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan, and India as therapeutic natural product for treating various diseases including kidney diseases, impotence, obesity, and epilepsy. Diabetes represent a global health problem causing many complications and health risk to people of different ages. The current study aimed at identifying the role of Gum Arabic in treating diseases especially diabetes. Many studies have been conducted on the role of Gum Arabic in experimentally induced diabetes as well as randomized clinical studies. This narrative review was written based on a database search in common libraries such as PubMed, Cochrane, Web of Science, and Scopus. The libraries were searched for English articles published between 1995 and 2020 focusing on the role of Gum Arabic in different preclinical and clinical trials of early and advanced level of diabetes.</p> <p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Gum Arabic, diabetes, animals, human, nanoparticles</p&gt;}, number={3}, journal={Sudan Journal of Medical Sciences (SJMS)}, author={Munir Salama, Suzy and Ali Fadlalmola, Hammad and Mohammed Abdel Hafeez, Manal and Ali Mohamed Ahmed, Samia and Awad Mohamed, Rafiah and Mohammed Ali Elatta, Nora and Adam Mariod, Abdalbasit}, year={2021}, month={Sep.}, pages={436–453} }