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Aerobic exercise program affect insulin resistance in asthma patients

Khorshidi Davood, Ghanbari Shahpour, Samarikhalaj Hamidreza, Kiani Fatemeh

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.12692/ijb/4.2.322-326

Int. J. Biosci. 4(2), 322-326. January, 2014. (PDF)

Abstract:

A growing body of evidence supports relation between insulin resistance and chronic diseases, although its relationship with asthma has been poorly evaluated.  This study aimed to determine whether 12 wk aerobic exercise program altered insulin resistance in adult males with asthma. Twenty four no trained adult men with chronic asthma [mean (SD): 37.4 (7.39) yr, body mass index 31.29 (5.53) kg/m (2)] participated in this study by accessible sampling and divided into exercise or control groups by randomly. Exercise group were completed an aerobic exercise program for three months and control group were not participate in exercise. Pre and post training of fasting serum insulin and glucose were measured in order to insulin resistance measuring. Student’s t-tests for paired samples were performed to determine significance of changes in variables by exercise intervention. Anthropometrical markers decrease significantly by exercise program (p= 0.05). Exercise program were also resulted significant decrease in fasting glucose 0.000) and insulin resistance (p= 0.022) when compared with baseline. Our findings indicate that aerobic training intervention is associated with improving in glucose homeostasis in asthma patients.