Gestational Diabetes: the Prevention

Technical University of Madrid

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pregnancy

Treatments: Behavioral: Exercise group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01790412

Technical University of Madrid

Details and patient eligibility

About

To assess the effectiveness of an exercise program developed during pregnancy (land/aquatic activities) aerobic and muscular tonification, on control to the prevention to Gestational Diabetes. And to assess if excessive maternal weight gain is an influence in the diagnostic.

Full description

A clinical, randomized controlled trial was used. 342 pregnant women without obstetric contraindications accepted informed consent for inclusion in the study. Finally, 257 were studied, 101 in intervention group (IG, n= 101) and 156 in control group (GC, n= 156). A physical exercise program three times per week during pregnancy was developed. The duration of session was 60 minutes and 50 minutes in land and water, respectively.

Enrollment: 257 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy pregnant women
• At week 8-14
• Adherence 80% (minimum) until the end of pregnancy

Exclusion criteria

• Contraindications appointed by American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (ACOG)
• No adherence

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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257 participants in 2 patient groups

Exercise group

Experimental group

Description:

Three sessions per week: Supervised exercise program

Treatment:

Behavioral: Exercise group

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Sedentary pregnant women