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

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Gestational Diabetes
• Interventions: Other: Resistance exercises

• Registration Number: NCT00815828
• Lead Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2006-10
• Status Verified: 2008-11
• Primary Completion: 2008-11
• Study Completion: 2008-11
• Study First Submitted: 2008-12-30
• Study First Submitted QC: 2008-12-30
• Last Update Submitted: 2008-12-30
• Study First Posted: 2008-12-31
• Last Update Posted: 2008-12-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 64

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
1	Resistance exercises	Group that don't do the resistance exercises

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
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	weekly

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
To verify the impact of the exercise program on the adequacy of capillary glycemic control of the pregnant women	weekly

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Faculty of Medicine from University of Sao Paulo; 🇧🇷 Sao Paulo, Brazil