The Effects of Resistance Exercises in Glycemic Control of Women With Gestational Diabetes
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00815828 |
Recruitment Status
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Completed
First Posted
: December 31, 2008
Last Update Posted
: December 31, 2008
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Gestational Diabetes | Other: Resistance exercises | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 64 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Supportive Care |
Official Title: | The Effects of Resistance Exercises in Glycemic Control of Women With Gestational Diabetes - A Randomized Clinical Trial |
Study Start Date : | October 2006 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | November 2008 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | November 2008 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Group that don't do the resistance exercises
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Other: Resistance exercises
Resistance exercises program consisting of 08 different exercises.
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- 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 [ Time Frame: weekly ]
- To verify the impact of the exercise program on the adequacy of capillary glycemic control of the pregnant women [ Time Frame: weekly ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 45 Years (Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts 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

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00815828
Brazil | |
Faculty of Medicine from University of Sao Paulo | |
Sao Paulo, Brazil, 05403900 |
Principal Investigator: | Marcelo C Barros, Physical Educator | Faculty of Medicine from University of Sao Paulo |
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Responsible Party: | Marcelo Costa de Barros, Faculty of Medicine from University of Sao Paulo |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00815828 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
392/2006 |
First Posted: | December 31, 2008 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | December 31, 2008 |
Last Verified: | November 2008 |
Keywords provided by University of Sao Paulo:
Gestational Diabetes Resistance Exercise Pregnancy Insulin |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Diabetes Mellitus Diabetes, Gestational Glucose Metabolism Disorders |
Metabolic Diseases Endocrine System Diseases Pregnancy Complications |