A Randomized Controlled Trial of Exercise Training Among Men With Type 2-diabetes

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hyperglycemia; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

Treatments: Behavioral: strength training; Behavioral: Endurance training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00666094

520073168 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

To test the hypothesis that there is no difference in change in HbA1C among men with type 2-diabetes after an exercise intervention with strength versus endurance training.

Full description

Exercise training is well documented as part of effective treatment for type 2-diabetes patients. Endurance training has been suggested as the most suitable form of exercise. There are reasons to believe that strength training also has a positive effect. However, comparisons of endurance training and strength training regimes are limited.

Therefore we randomized 26 men with type 2-diabetes to either an endurance training group or a strength training group. Both groups exercised three sessions per week for three months. The training was supervised.

Enrollment: 26 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 35 to 71 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosed with type 2-diabetes
• Male, 35-71 years
• Managing their diabetes through a lifestyle and/or the drug metformin only
• Able to participate in either of the exercise groups

Exclusion criteria

• Symptomatic cardiovascular disease
• Uncontrolled hypertension
• Physical or cognitive disabilities that will interfere with participating in the exercise regimes.
• Trained consistently during the last six months.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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26 participants in 2 patient groups

endurance training

Active Comparator group

Description:

supervised endurance training

Treatment:

Behavioral: Endurance training

strength training

Experimental group

Description:

Supervised strength training

Treatment:

Behavioral: strength training