The aim of this study was to analyse the acute and chronic effects of two aerobic-training models performed in water and on dry land on cardiorespiratory, functional, metabolic, hormonal and quality-of-life parameters in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).
Inclusion Criteria:
The clinical diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Not be performing regular and systematic physical exercise for at least three months.
Exclusion Criteria:
Uncontrolled hypertension. Autonomic neuropathy. Severe peripheral neuropathy. Proliferative diabetic retinopathy. Severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy. Uncompensated heart failure. Peripheral amputations. Chronic renal failure (GFR by MDRD <30). Muscle or joint injury that prevents physical exercises.