The Effects of Resistance Exercises in Glycemic Control of Women With Gestational Diabetes

University of Sao Paulo64 enrolled

Overview

The object of this study is to evaluate patients with a diagnosis of GD who are included in a program of RE carried out with rubber tubes, comparing the frequency of women who will use insulin in the group who will participate in the program with the group that won't do the exercises, and to verify the impact of the program on the adequacy of capillary glycemic control of the pregnant women.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Gestational Diabetes

Interventions

Resistance exercisesOTHER

Resistance exercises program consisting of 08 different exercises.

Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 45 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Gestational diabetes diagnosis * Sedentary * Nonsmokers * Age between 18 and 45 years old * Pre-pregnancy BMI less than 35, without limiting physical factor for conducting exercises * With single pregnancy without fetal malformation:gestational age between 24 and 34 weeks, which have no other condition that contraindicate the conduct of exercises, with no risk factors for preterm delivery and who consent to participate in the study Exclusion Criteria: * Patients who develop further clinical or obstetric complications that contraindicate the conducting exercises during pregnancy * Patients who start any form of physical activity after being randomized to the control group * Patients who start another form of physical activity than the resistance exercises after being randomized to the intervention group * Patients who were to use another product than insulin as a form of glycemic control * Patients to abandon the study

Locations (1)

Faculty of Medicine from University of Sao Paulo

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

To compare the frequency of women who use insulin in the group who participate in the exercise program with the group that don't do the exercises

Time frame: weekly

Secondary Outcomes

To verify the impact of the exercise program on the adequacy of capillary glycemic control of the pregnant women

Time frame: weekly

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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