Gestational Diabetes
Conditions
Keywords
Gestational Diabetes, Resistance Exercise, Pregnancy, Insulin
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.
Interventions
OTHERResistance exercises
Resistance exercises program consisting of 08 different exercises.
Sponsors
University of Sao Paulo
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to 45 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
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
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 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
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To verify the impact of the exercise program on the adequacy of capillary glycemic control of the pregnant women | weekly |
Countries
Brazil
Outcome results
None listed