The Effects of Low-intensity and Low-volume Exercise in the Type 2 Diabetes Patients

• Main Authors: Jui-lan Yeh, 葉芮欖
• Other Authors: Hsiu-Hua Pai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99282936788820355681

碩士 === 國立高雄大學 === 運動健康與休閒學系碩士班 === 99 === The urbanization of Taiwan has led the people to have a sedentary life style, and accompany with the increasing of the obesity population. Diabetes mellitus has become one of the main causes of death, therefore, controlling or improving the complications of diabetes mellitus is an essential issue. There have been lots of researches regarding exercise intervention in the diabetic patients, yet the researches regarding effects of low-intensity and low-volume exercise intervention in type 2 diabetes patients are still quite few. Consequently, the purpose of this research is to probe into the regular and appropriate exercise intervention for type 2 diabetes patients, as well as its related effects. Methodology: this research used the experimentation method, to investigate the exercise barrier and the disease history of the diabetes patients by valid questionnaire. Twenty subjects of exercise group implemented 12 weeks of low-intensity (35-54% MHR) and low-volume(1,200 kcal consumed per week) exercise intervention by brisk walking while another 20 subjects of control group did not proceed any exercise intervention. Total cholesterol, HDL-C, triglyceride, fasting immunoreactive insulin, fasting plasma glucose, glycosylated hemoglobin, and HOMA-IR before and after exercise intervention were analyzed by t-test and simple linear regression analysis (P<0.05), to examine whether the low-intensity and low-volume exercise intervention is able to improve diabetes patients' biochemical values and insulin resistance. The results show that, twelve subjects (57.7%) have exercise barrier of "lack of time", ten subjects (25%) have history of "hypertension", and 32 subjects (80%) have family medical history of "diabetes mellitus". Subjects in the exercise group significantly reduced the insulin resistance after 12 weeks of exercise intervention, and the other biochemical values showed improvement, though without statistically significance. Furthermore, the reduction of insulin resistance after exercise intervention is significantly correlated to fasting immunoreactive insulin, while the other biochemical values presented no significant correlations. For diabetes patients having passable mobility, reducing insulin resistance to stabilize the plasma glucose metabolism, and even to improve patients' condition by regularly implementing low-intensity and low-volume exercise intervention, is a simple and feasible method.