The Effects of Resistance Exercises in Glycemic Control of Women With Gestational Diabetes - A Randomized Clinical Trial

University of Sao Paulo1 site in 1 country64 target enrollmentOctober 2006

ConditionsGestational Diabetes

Overview

Phase: Not Applicable
Intervention: Not specified
Conditions: Gestational Diabetes
Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo
Enrollment: 64
Locations: 1
Primary Endpoint: 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
Status: Completed
Last Updated: 17 years ago

Overview Investigators Eligibility Criteria Outcomes Sites Similar Trials

Overview

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.

Registry

clinicaltrials.gov

Start Date

October 2006

End Date

November 2008

Last Updated

17 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Study Design

Parallel

Sex

Female

Investigators

Sponsor

University of Sao Paulo

Eligibility Criteria

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