Consumption of cows’ milk is associated with lower risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus. A cross-sectional study

Serum pentadecanoic acid (15:0), a short-term marker of dairy food intake, is inversely associated with incident type 2 diabetes and its underlying disorders

“…Three meta-analyses of prospective observational studies have reported that high dairy intake was associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes (2)(3)(4). However, findings have been inconsistent across individual studies (5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15), and only a limited number of investigations have assessed the relation of dairy intake with the main underlying pathophysiologic traits of type 2 diabetes (1)-namely, insulin resistance (14,(16)(17)(18) and b-cell dysfunction (14).…”

Dairy Product Consumption and Metabolic Diseases in the Di@bet.es Study

“…In this study we investigated the suggested association between dairy product consumption and metabolic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and hypertension in the Spanish adult population. Most of the studies that focus on the relationship of dairy intake and diabetes in Spain [ 19 , 20 , 21 ] suggest an association between them; however, these studies were performed in selected groups of people and they are not nationally representative. Among the studies that analyze the relationship between dairy product intake and glucose metabolism in other populations [ 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 ], a recent meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies has concluded that overall, there is scientific evidence of neutral or beneficial associations with T2DM [ 2 ].…”

“…There are very few studies in Spain to assess the relationship between dairy products and metabolic diseases. Most of them are in children, adolescents [ 19 ] (511 individuals), or elderly people [ 20 ] (3454 individuals analyzed) and focus only on cardiovascular disease or refer to specific towns [ 21 ] (790 individuals). All these previous studies have suggested that there might be an effect of dairy consumption on metabolic diseases; therefore, we performed this study in a Spanish nationwide sample with the objective of testing the association between dairy product consumption and diabetes, obesity and hypertension in the Spanish adult population.…”

Increased gut permeability and bacterial translocation are associated with fibromyalgia and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: implications for disease-related biomarker discovery

“…Circulating anti-β-lactoglobulin antibody levels (IgG isotypes) were tested using a standard direct ELISA protocol ( 46 ). Briefly, microtitre 96-well polystyrene plates (Nunc, Roskilde, Denmark) were coated with 1 μg/μL β-lactoglobulin from cow’s milk as target protein (Cat # L7880; Sigma Aldrich, Madrid, Spain) diluted in 50 mM Na 2 CO 3 /NaHCO 3 buffer (pH 9.6) at 4°C overnight.…”