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Prescribing Exercise for Patients with Diabetes

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Exercise prescription for patients with diabetes follows guidelines regarding frequency, intensity, duration, and mode of exercise established for patients participating in a medically supervised exercise program. Physicians and health care professionals should devise an exercise care plan that maximizes the benefits and minimizes the risks for each patient. The distinction between prescribing exercise for patients with T1DM and patients with T2DM with and without DRCs is reviewed. The question whether to exercise or not based on hyperglycemia /hypoglycemia is presented. It is highly recommended that health care professionals incorporate progressive resistance training and lifestyle-based physical activity into the exercise prescription for patients with diabetes. Health care professionals should be knowledgeable about diabetic medications to avoid the potential for hypoglycemia associated with exercise.

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  1. Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toledo College of Medicine, Toledo, OH, USA

    Dalynn T. Badenhop

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  1. Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, USA

    Judith G. Regensteiner PhD

  2. Division of Endocrinology Metabolism and Diabetes, Department of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA

    Jane E.B. Reusch MD

  3. Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Kerry J. Stewart EDD

  4. Joslin-Beth Israel Deaconess Foot Center, Microcirculation Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Aristidis Veves MD, DSc

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Badenhop, D.T. (2009). Prescribing Exercise for Patients with Diabetes. In: Regensteiner, J.G., Reusch, J.E., Stewart, K.J., Veves, A. (eds) Diabetes and Exercise. Contemporary Diabetes. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-260-1_9

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