NCT01790412

Gestational Diabetes: the Prevention

Gestational Diabetes. The Rol of Exercise in the Prevention

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 257 (actual)
• Sponsor: Technical University of Madrid · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Pregnancy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Exercise group	Combined two land aerobic sessions and one aquatic activities session

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-02-01
• Primary completion: 2012-12-01
• Completion: 2012-12-01
• First posted: 2013-02-13
• Last updated: 2013-02-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain