The proposed study will randomize participants with diabetic peripheral neuropathy into two groups. One group of participants will receive standard-of-care counseling while the other group will undergo supervised exercise and counseling to increase physical activity.
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) affects over 8% of Americans, and half will develop peripheral neuropathy, a progressive injury to the very longest nerves of the body. Our previous research has found that neuropathy can be detected early in its course and followed by examining nerves that reach to the skin using a small punch biopsy. These cutaneous nerves can be injured by high blood glucose, obesity and high triglycerides, but have the potential to regrow in response to treatments that improve these metabolic conditions. The proposed study will randomize participants with mild to moderate diabetic peripheral neuropathy to receive either generic annual counseling or an integrated program of moderate supervised exercise and actigraphy based anti sedentariness counseling.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
140
University of Kansas
Kansas City, Kansas, United States
RECRUITINGUniversity of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
RECRUITINGChange in Intraepidermal Nerve Fiber Density (IENFD)
Time frame: Baseline, 9 months, and 18 months
Change in Quality of Life (NQOL-DN) Questionnaire Results
Time frame: Baseline, 9 months, and 18 months
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