new YORK (Reuters Health) – losing weight and improving fitness
physics would protect the mobility problems common to the
older adults with overweight and type 2 diabetes.
In a new study, lifestyle changes helped
patients and patients with mobility to treasure
with severe mobility problems to reduce them, at least in
the short-term.
The main author, w. Jack Rejeski, of Wake Forest
University, in North Carolina, said that trends
demonstrates the importance of promoting the weight control and the
exercise as soon as possible, rather than waiting until
the problems.
In the study published in New England Journal of Medicine,
Rejeski team calculated that slimming the 1 per cent of the
body weight reduced more than 7 per cent the problems of
mobility. And 1 percent more physical fitness fell 1-2
percent that risk.
“if we can change enough lifestyle of
“
this population will have more and more mobility and, in time,
“
the effect on his life will be enormous”, thought Dr. Vivian
Fonseca, President of medicine and science of the Association
Diabetes (ADA), American
who did not participate in the study.
The ADA estimates that nearly 26 million Americans have
diabetes (most, type 2, which is the form that is more
associated with overweight) and 79 million more are at risk of
develop the disease. It is expected that these figures will increase
significantly in United States aging
population.
People with diabetes are twice as likely to have problems
mobility with age.
Rejeski team piloted a programme in which is
encouraged volunteers to lose weight more than 7 per cent of its
body weight and make at least three hours of exercise
physicist per week.
Another group of volunteers (control) attended three times in
a year group meetings on nutrition, physical activity and
orientation.
In total, more than 5,000 volunteers from among 45 participated
and 74 years with overweight or obesity. All reported on their
ability to move through various surveys during
four years. Also physical fitness test in
various moments in research.
Year, the participants treated with diet and exercise
they had lost 6 percent of the body weight compared
with less than 1 per cent in the control group.
15 Percent of the control group had serious problems
mobility at the beginning of the study and that figure grew to 19 by
% in a year and continued to rise in the three remaining years.
In the other group, 13 per cent had begun the
study with serious disorders of mobility and the year the
suffered 12 percent. Then, the possibility of having those
problems started to grow again.
Recover some lost weight, “but also
“”
they get older and start other problems”, said Fonseca,
the Tulane School of medicine endocrinóloga
University, in New Orleans.
El 33 per cent of the control group had begun the
Studio with a good level of mobility and the proportion remained stable
too much in the next few years.
On the other hand, in the group treated with diet and exercise, the
percentage with good mobility rose from 37 per cent initial
to 41 per cent in a year. Although then declined, never as
made below the initial share.
The team calculated that the change of the style of life reduced a
48 percent possibility of diabetics to lose the
ability to move.
Source: New England Journal of Medicine, online March 28
2012
