Diabetes and Exercise

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Veves, Aristidis. (Editor), Stewart, Kerry J. (Editor), Reusch, Jane E. B. (Editor), Regensteinerr, Judith G. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2009.
• Series: Contemporary Diabetes
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cardiology.; Diabetes.; Endocrinology.; Sports medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Sports Medicine.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-260-1

Diabetes is a major public health problem in the United States. This collection, Diabetes and Exercise, discusses the extent of the problem of diabetes and sedentary lifestyle and presents a compelling rationale for the importance of increased physical activity and exercise in persons with diabetes....

Table of Contents:

• The Epidemic of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Its Links to Obesity, Insulin Resistance and Lipotoxicity
• Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes
• The Metabolic Syndrome
• Exercise Performance and Effects of Exercise Training In Diabetes
• The Cardiovascular Consequences of T2DM Mellitus
• Endothelial Dysfunction, Inflammation, and Exercise
• Exercise, Adiposity, and Regional Fat Distribution
• Diabetes Mellitus and Exercise Physiology in the Presence of Diabetic Co-morbidities
• Prescribing Exercise as Therapy for Patients with Diabetes (Exercise Prescription for Diabetics)
• Behavior Change Strategies for Increasing Exercise in Diabetes
• Nutritional Management of Diabetes
• Exercise Precautions/Guidelines for Exercise Testing in Diabetics Starting an Exercise Program
• Conditions that May Interfere with Exercise
• Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and Exercise
• Exercise Deficits in Youth with Type 2 Diabetes.