Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Ananta Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center, Rajasthan
*Corresponding Author: Paras Arvindbhai Parekh, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Ananta Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center, Rajasthan, Mobile no. 8875873713, Email: paras_parekh13@yahoo.com
Online published on 20 July, 2019.
Diabetes mellitus type 2 is because of resistance to insulin resulting in inability to utilize glucose. In addition to medicines and diet control, regular exercise helps in increase in utilization of glucose.
To study efficacy of exercise especially treadmill walking on controlling blood glucose homeostasis in diabetes mellitus.
The study was conducted on 40 clinically confirmed cases of type-2 diabetes mellitus male patients who were divided in study group and control group with 20 patients in each group. Study was conducted for period of 8 weeks. Diet plan was formed by expert during this period and subjects were instructed to follow it strictly. Fasting blood glucose and postprandial blood glucose was measured before and after exercise programme.
There is significant decrease in fasting blood glucose and Postprandial blood glucose level in study group as compared to control group with inter-group difference was significant (P<0.05).
Treadmill exercise is very useful for blood glucose control in addition to diet control and medicines.
Type-2 diabetes mellitus, Treadmill exercise, Fasting blood glucose, Postprandial blood glucose, Glycemic control
