Glycaemic control is improved by 7 days of aerobic exercise training in patients with type 2 diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Aims/hypothesis

Cardiovascular events and death are better predicted by postprandial glucose (PPG) than by fasting blood glucose or HbA(1c). While chronic exercise reduces HbA(1c) in patients with type 2 diabetes, short-term exercise improves measures of insulin sensitivity but does not consistently alter responses to the OGTT. The purpose of this study was to determine whether short-term exercise training improves PPG and glycaemic control in free-living patients with type 2 diabetes, independently of the changes in fitness, adiposity and energy balance often associated with chronic exercise training.

Methods

Using continuous glucose monitors, PPG was quantified in previously sedentary patients with type 2 diabetes not using exogenous insulin (n = 13, age 53 ± 2 years, HbA(

SUBMITTER: Mikus CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4500040 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature