Effects of Different Types of Exercise in Type 2 Diabetes

Plain-language summary

This study compares the effects of aerobic training and resistance training in people with type 2 diabetes. It included patients diagnosed at least one year earlier, treated with diet and oral glucose-lowering medications, with a body mass index between 24 and 36. It was carried out as a study with no assigned phase and has been completed.

The summary above is a plain-language rendering of the official record. The original English title is shown for reference.

Trial details

Phase

Not Applicable

Status

Completed

Sponsor

Universita di Verona

Intervention

Aerobic Training, Resistance Training

Start date

1/1/2009

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Eligibility criteria

Criteria are reproduced from the ClinicalTrials.gov record in the original English. Only the trial team can determine eligibility.

Inclusion Criteria:

* BMI between 24-36 kg/m2;
* HbA1c between 6.5-9.0%;
* diabetes diagnosis must have been made at least 1 yr previously;
* admitted diabetes treatments will be diet and oral hypoglycemic agents;
* baseline physical activity, estimated by the IPAQ questionnaire, lower than 1000 MET min per week;
* baseline body weight stable (changes lower than 2 kg in the last 2 months).

Exclusion Criteria:

* moderate-severe somatic or autonomic neuropathy;
* coronary heart disease;
* peripheral or cerebral vascular disease;
* preproliferative or proliferative retinopathy or chronic renal failure (serum creatinine \>1.4 mg/dl in females; \>1.5 mg/dl in males);
* therapy with beta-blocker drugs;
* smokers;
* acute clinically significant intercurrent diseases;
* inability to perform the scheduled physical activity programs.