Author: Bolysbek Dana
Translator: Tursunova Balkadisha
Editor: Akhmetova Aigerim
People with type 2 diabetes are at an increased risk of heart disease and reduced blood vessel function. Measurement of vascular function is often used to determine the risk of heart disease. An earlier study found that exercise and an active lifestyle reduce the risk of heart disease not only in patients with diabetes, but also in healthy people.
Frances Taylor, a doctoral student in exercise and sports at The Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, conducted the study. Frances ' team compared how blood flow and blood vessel dilation in adults with obesity and type 2 diabetes responded to shorter, more frequent, or longer and less frequent workouts.
In one test, participants sat for eight hours with no breaks between exercises. In the second test, they took breaks every 30 minutes, performing three-minute exercises that included squats, leg lifts, and toe lifts. In the third test, they took six-minute breaks between exercises every hour. The study showed that compared to the results of the first version of the test, in the second version: blood vessel function improved with the last two approaches to exercise, but this indicator became significantly higher when performing exercises every 30 minutes.
The discovery suggests that the frequency of a break in activity may be more important than its duration. Since blood vessel function deteriorates as type 2 diabetes progresses, it is possible that more frequent exercise breaks are needed to maintain blood flow in the legs.
"Our results suggest that more frequent and shorter breaks may be more beneficial than longer and less frequent breaks for improving vascular function in people with type 2 diabetes," the researchers concluded.
Source: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-11-quick-diabetics-hearts.html
