Benefits of a home-based physical exercise program in elderly subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Effects of exercise training on quality of life, symptoms of depression, symptoms of anxiety and emotional well-being in type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review

“…An intention-to-treat analysis was performed in three studies [34,44,47] (ESM Table 1). Eight studies used the SF36 [29, 34, 36-38, 42, 44, 47], one the European Quality of Life questionnaire (EuroQoL) [32], and one a combination of the Diabetes Quality of Life-Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) Research Group questionnaire and the Modified Quality of Life Measure for Youths [46]. Results were mixed.…”

“…Overall, 1,261 articles were retrieved from electronic databases and manual searches, 161 articles were included based on review of the title, 33 based on review of the abstract, and 20 [28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47] based on review of the full text article (ESM Fig. 1).…”

“…A total of 1,719 people with type 2 diabetes were included in the studies. Samples sizes ranged from 18 [30] to 84 [32] participants, with the exception of Reid et al [44] (n=218) and Nicolucci et al [42] (n=606). The mean age of the participants ranged from 43 years [30] to 70 years [46].…”

“…The mean age of the participants ranged from 43 years [30] to 70 years [46]. The mean BMI ranged from 25 kg/m 2 [28] to 40 kg/m 2 [31], mean HbA 1c ranged from 6.4% (46 mmol/mol) [32] to 9.0% (75 mmol/mol) [37] (Table 1). In none of the studies was low quality of life or low emotional well-being, or suffering from symptoms of depression or anxiety, an inclusion criterion.…”

“…walking, treadmills, outdoor activities) and resistance training (e.g. circuit training, weight machines) [29,32,34,36,38,42,44,46]. In one study the aerobic training [33] and in two studies the combined training [32,36] was not supervised ( Table 1).…”