High plasma selenium concentrations are linked to reduce the occurrence of dysglycemia, stated a new report.

Dysglycemia is considered to be any disorder of blood sugar metabolism, which affects both the genders.

The research conducted by the University of Montpellier, Tasnime Akbaraly did an observational survey upon 1,162 healthy French men and women for nine years, monitoring their plasma selenium levels and occurrence of dysglycemia.

As per researchers, results indicated that that in case of elderly French males, higher plasma selenium concentrations resulted in reduced risk of dysglycemia growth.

Also during the study period while 127 new cases were reported, 57 of them were male and remaining 70 were women. The reason attributed to such a reaction was believed to be a protective effect of selenium in men, which was absent in case of women.

Further it was concluded that out of the two genders, female were supposed to be healthier as they had a better antioxidant status in general and revealed the possible differences in how men and women process selenium levels.