NCT02548000

Diabetes Resistance Training Adaptations in Elderly

Muscle and Vascular Adaptations Induced by Resistance Training in Elderly Diabetic Type 2

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to verify the effects of resistance training on neuromuscular, vascular and functional adaptations of elderly diabetics type 2. Half of participants will be the intervention group that will perform resistance training, while the other half will be the control group that will perform stretching sessions.

Detailed description

Resistance training may be an interesting strategy to fight diabetes deleterious conditions, as it is known to increase muscle mass and quality, strength, functional capacity, vascular health, and decrease inflammation status and blood lipids, besides leading to improves in glycemic control. To test this hypothesis, 42 diabetic patients will be recruited and randomized to two groups that will be evaluated before and after 12 weeks of both intervention or control period. The resistance training group will perform all body resistance exercises three times per week, while the control group will perform a stretching session one time per week.

Conditions

• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Resistance training	The resistance training will be compound by 12 exercises for all body muscles, performed three times per week. The intensity of training will be measure by maximum repetitions from 12 until 8 repetitions with 2-3 series. The loads will increase for keep the maximum strength as the capacity of patients. The blood pressure and the casual glycemic will be measure before and after the training in each session. Before to start the exercises, patients will perform a warming on treadmill for 10 minutes and after the training will perform some stretching exercises for muscles groups trained.
OTHER	Stretching control	The stretching session will be composed by stretching and joint mobilization exercises for all body muscles and will happen only one time per week.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-07-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-01
• Completion: 2017-07-01
• First posted: 2015-09-14
• Last updated: 2017-08-03

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Brazil