Physical Activity

New analysis suggests either aerobics or strength training can improve blood sugar levels, lower body fat and waist size, more… In a randomized trial, researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas compared different strategies of exercise for people with type 2 diabetes. They found that people …

Exercise inversely correlated with HbA1c, diabetic ketoacidosis, BMI, and dyslipidemia in type 1 patients…. Barbara Bohn and colleagues from the University of Ulm in Germany looked at a cohort study with 18,028 adults with type 1 diabetes. Participants were classified according to their physical activity. The results of the study …

Those women who continued to exercise throughout their pregnancy achieved an even higher risk reduction… Gestational diabetes and excessive maternal weight gain are associated with many negative outcomes for both the mother and the baby including: pre-eclampsia, hypertension and preterm birth. Expectant mothers who are diagnosed with gestational diabetes are …

Thirty minutes of exercise 6 days a week associated with about 40% mortality risk reduction in a study of older men… Norwegian researchers studied the relationships between physical activity (PA), smoking and 12-year cardiovascular (CV), non-CV and all-cause mortality in elderly Oslo men screened for CV disease in 1972–1973 and 2000. …

Dr. Joe Houmard briefly talks about the benefits of different types of aerobic exercise noting that part of a patient’s choice should be personal preference, and some might be due to factors such as the stress on joints that running can bring. Healso  notes that although cycling is great exercise, …

A female patient on insulin, 67 years of age, required more and more insulin to manage her glucose levels. She was eating healthily, exercising, monitoring, and taking her insulin as prescribed. I asked her when she had last seen her dentist. She confessed that this was one part of her …

Dr. Joe Houmard continues his discussion of the benefits of physical activity and emphasizes that, when communicating with patients, it’s especially important to tell them not to rely on a scale for results, especially if they are just starting out. One important aspect that a scale will not show is …

by Dr. Sheri Colberg, Ph.D., FACSM Given that fear of hypoglycemia during exercise is a known barrier to exercise participation, particularly for insulin users with diabetes, it is worthwhile to discuss some novel approaches to using exercise itself to manage blood glucose levels during activities. Based on some newer research, …

Joseph Hourmard talks about the benefits of aerobic exercise versus anaerobic exercise, and notes that as patients get older, doing more resistance-type exercise will help to maintain muscle mass. However, he again points out that the best exercise is the type that patients will actually do. He also notes that …

Some positive effects seen but no decrease in pain intensity was observed…. A common complication of diabetes is painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy (P-DPN). Current standard of care for patients with P-DPN involves pharmacological interventions that are limited by their potential adverse side effects. Numerous drugs are still being developed and …