Research · Meta-analysis
Glucose-lowering effect of berberine on type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis
What it found
Lowered fasting glucose by ~0.82 mmol/L, HbA1c by ~0.63 percentage points, and 2-hour postprandial glucose by ~1.16 mmol/L, without a significant rise in adverse events or hypoglycemia.
- Design
- Meta-analysis
- Year
- 2022
- Sample size
- 3,048
- Population
- adults with type 2 diabetes (37 studies)
- Intervention
- berberine, alone or added to oral hypoglycemic agents
- Outcome
- fasting glucose, HbA1c, 2-hour postprandial glucose
- Journal
- Frontiers in Pharmacology
Citation last checked 2026-06-21.