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A new study suggests that people with Type 2 diabetes are able to stabilize their blood sugar levels significantly by combining aerobic exercise with weight training.

The study shows that diabetics doing both types of exercise regularly saw their blood sugar levels improve at twice the rate of those doing just one. The findings could impact more than two million Canadians with the disease.

Dr. Ron Siegal is an endocrinologist at the University of Calgary and co-author of the study being published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine. He suggests such drops in blood sugar levels would be "clinically significant."

"The difference between the combined exercise group and the control group that didn't exercise would translate into a 15 to 20 per cent reduction in the risk of major cardiovascular events like heart attack and stroke," he said Monday.

The six-month study, which was also conducted by seven researchers from the University of Ottawa and the Ottawa Health Research Institute, used 251 randomly selected people.

While the study showed that those who did one form of exercise were able to lower their blood sugar levels more than those who did nothing, the group that did combined exercises showed the biggest improvements.

Siegal said the two-pronged approach could also help lower the risk of "micro-vascular" problems that often afflict people with Type 2 diabetes such as blindness, kidney ailments and peripheral nerve troubles by upwards of 40 per cent.

Type 2, sometimes known as late-onset diabetes, is the form of the disease that often shows up later in a person's life. It can be prevented or delayed through improving one's health and controlling weight, diet and stress.

source: medbroadcast.com


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