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.

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