The Role of Physical Activities in the Complex Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes

The study’s purpose is to highlight the importance of regular physical activities used as a method paired with diet therapy and medical treatment in people who have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. The research was done on 155 patients, with ages between 45-55 from a Bucharest clinic that specializes in endocrine metabolically disorders. These subjects were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, which is being kept in control through diet and oral anti-diabetes medicine. The recommended physical activities were monitored by the following parameters, which started off with moderate values: intensity, volume, duration. All of these were progressively increased throughout the research, always in correlation with the glucose levels. Physical activities that are correctly monitored and personalized according to the functional status of the type 2 diabetes patients does contribute in improving the median values of the investigated biochemical parameters, helps the subjects to feel better and last but not the least, it can reduce the treatment costs.