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The Effects of Resistance Exercises in Glycemic Control of Women With Gestational Diabetes

This study has been completed.
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Information provided by:
University of Sao Paulo
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT00815828
First received: December 30, 2008
Last updated: NA
Last verified: November 2008
History: No changes posted

December 30, 2008
December 30, 2008
October 2006
November 2008   (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Same as current
No Changes Posted
To verify the impact of the exercise program on the adequacy of capillary glycemic control of the pregnant women [ Time Frame: weekly ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Same as current
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The Effects of Resistance Exercises in Glycemic Control of Women With Gestational Diabetes
The Effects of Resistance Exercises in Glycemic Control of Women With Gestational Diabetes - A Randomized Clinical Trial

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.
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Interventional
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Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
Gestational Diabetes
Other: Resistance exercises
Resistance exercises program consisting of 08 different exercises.
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Group that don't do the resistance exercises
Intervention: Other: Resistance exercises

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Completed
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November 2008
November 2008   (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

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
Female
18 Years to 45 Years
No
Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
Brazil
 
NCT00815828
392/2006
Yes
Marcelo Costa de Barros, Faculty of Medicine from University of Sao Paulo
University of Sao Paulo
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Principal Investigator: Marcelo C Barros, Physical Educator Faculty of Medicine from University of Sao Paulo
University of Sao Paulo
November 2008

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