Effects of Physical Exercise on Blood Glucose and Pain From the Musculoskeletal System in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

Nordsjaellands Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Treatments: Behavioral: Exercise training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02366416

H-1-2014-122

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects og physical exercise on bloodglucose and pain from the musculoskeletal system in patients with type 2 diabetes.

The patients will be recruited to 12 weeks of exercise twice weekly. The outomes are long term bloodglucose (HbA1c) and pain reported in questionaires. In data analyses the patients will be stratified to patients with a high or a low degree of complications related to diabetes.

Full description

Design: Uncontrolled intervention study Patients: Type 2 diabetes from Nordsjællands Hospital, Denmark Inclusion critera: adults, type 2 diabetes, not participating in an ungoing exercise program, able to conduct exercise training Exclusion criteria: unable to understand Danish, psychiatric disorder, dementia Intervention: two times one hour exercise training for 12 week. The training will be combined aerobic and resistance training supervised by physiotherapists Outcome: bloodglucose, pain (questionaire) Sample size: 80 participants

Enrollment: 72 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes
• Must be able to perform physical exercise

Exclusion criteria

• Participation in structured exercise program within the past three months
• Dementia
• Unable to understand Danish language

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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72 participants in 1 patient group

Exercise training

Experimental group

Description:

12 weeks of one hour exercise training twice weekly

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise training