The Effect of Chromium Picolinate Supplementation on the Pancreas and Macroangiopathy in Type II Diabetes Mellitus Rats

Table 2

The blood glucose and serum insulin concentrations of the rats after the blood glucose levels were stably maintained for one week.

Group	CN	T2DM	CrPic groups
			(25 μg/kg)	(50 μg/kg)	(100 μg/kg)
Blood glucose (mmol/L)	4.63 ± 1.02	16.81 ± 3.65*	17.52 ± 2.76*	17.91 ± 2.89*	18.03 ± 1.15*
Serum insulin (mIU/L)	16.88 ± 0.83	11.51 ± 1.07*	10.75 ± 1.23*	9.98 ± 1.03*	11.96 ± 0.74*

CN: the normal control group, group 1; T2DM: T2DM (type II diabetes mellitus) control group, group 2; CrPic groups: group 3 (25 μg/kg), group 4 (50 μg/kg), and group 5 (100 μg/kg); and ∗compared with group 1, 𝑃<0.01.