Diabetes Resistance Training Adaptations in Elderly (DRTAE)

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

Treatments: Other: Stretching control; Other: Resistance training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02548000

150257

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to verify the effects of resistance training on neuromuscular, vascular and functional adaptations of elderly diabetics type 2. Half of participants will be the intervention group that will perform resistance training, while the other half will be the control group that will perform stretching sessions.

Full description

Resistance training may be an interesting strategy to fight diabetes deleterious conditions, as it is known to increase muscle mass and quality, strength, functional capacity, vascular health, and decrease inflammation status and blood lipids, besides leading to improves in glycemic control. To test this hypothesis, 42 diabetic patients will be recruited and randomized to two groups that will be evaluated before and after 12 weeks of both intervention or control period. The resistance training group will perform all body resistance exercises three times per week, while the control group will perform a stretching session one time per week.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Type 2 diabetes
• 60 yers and older
• HbA1c > 6,5%
• BMI from 18,5 kg/m2 - 34,9 kg/m2

Exclusion criteria

• Current smoking
• Insulin users
• Hypertension uncontrolled
• Diabetic neuropathy
• Diabetic retinopathy
• Diabetic nephropathy
• Peripheral amputations
• Clinical depression
• Myocardial infarction (within past 6 months)
• Any unstable chronic condition
• Muscle-skeletal complications that limit the practice of the exercises

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Resistance training

Experimental group

Description:

Resistance training will be performed three times a week, for 12 weeks, composed by 12 resistance exercises for all body muscles with 2-3 series and 12-8 repetitions in each exercise.

Treatment:

Other: Resistance training

Stretching control

Active Comparator group

Description:

The control group will perform one stretching session a week.

Treatment:

Other: Stretching control