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Article: Individualize exercise regimens for patients with diabetes.(Clinical Rounds)
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- OB GYN News
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- July 15, 2006
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MIAMI -- Not enough patients with diabetes exercise, but even when they do, greater attention needs to be paid to how to best manage the effects of exertion on type 1 vs. type 2 disease, Dr. Dennis A. Cardone said at the annual meeting of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine.
"More than 50% of diabetics are not meeting exercise goals," said Dr. Cardone, who is in private practice at Pediatric Orthopedics of Southwest Florida in Fort Myers.
In the setting of type 1 diabetes, exercise can often reduce the severity of microvascular complications and improve lipid profiles.
And although there is no evidence that exercise prevents type 1 ...