Exercise Therapy for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: A Narrative Review

To achieve excellent glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes, an adequate prescription of exercise therapy is required. The meta-analyses proposed that high-intensity training improves metabolic parameters in patients with pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes and low physical activity is associated with an increased risk of incident type 2 diabetes. Here, we would introduce literatures about effects of physical activity on mortality, cardiovascular events, and metabolic parameters, to encourage understanding of exercise therapy, and then describe how to prescribe exercise therapy for patients with type 2 diabetes. We also show the usefulness of non-exercise activity thermogenesis for diabetic patients who cannot perform volitional sporting-like exercise because of diabetic complication and/or comorbidity, by presenting results of our previous studies.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Journal of Clinical Medicine Research

• Publication date

  2018-03-16

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.14740/jocmr3382wPMID 29581797PMCID 5862082
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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