Zinc kinetics in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus patients

Zinc has an important role in the control of carbohydrate metabolism, and d iabetic patients are at risk for zinc deficiency. However, there are confli cting data concerning nutritional zinc status. In order to investigate this topic, 10 normal and 10 insulin-dependent diabetic patients were studied f ollowing venous zinc tolerance test. Our results found no evidence of zinc deficiency or of changes on the kinetic parameters of zinc in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus following a venous zinc tolerance test .