The Effectiveness of Resistance Exercise for Glycemic Control in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients (RE)

Prince of Songkla University

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 2

Conditions

Type 2 Diabetes

Treatments

Behavioral: Resistance Exercise Training Program With Rubber Bands

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01387334

Prince of Songkla University

Details and patient eligibility

About

Resistance exercise is effective in improving glycemic control in diabetes patients. The effectiveness of a home-based resistance exercise program has not been establish.

Full description

Exercise play an important role in diabetes control. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) approved of resistive exercise as an effective method in controlling blood sugar of type 2 diabetes patients. Few community-based intervention has been establish. So the authors developed the low-cost community based resistance exercise program to promote exercise in of type 2 diabetes patients.

Enrollment

60 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 80 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Type 2 diabetes was diagnosed by physician using fasting plasma glucose not less than 126 mg/dl and/or HbA1c not less than 7 %.
Type 2 diabetes was diagnosed at least 6 months previously.
The subject was ongoing treatment in primary care unit of prince of Songkla University.

Exclusion criteria

Gestational diabetes and type 1 diabetes patients
History of cardiovascular disease within the pass 6 months or any unstable chronic condition including dementia, proliferative diabetic retinopathy, retinal hemorrhage or detachment, dialysis and diabetic foot patients.