The European Working Group on Diabetes in the Elderly (EDWPOP), formed by specialists in the field, has included, in its guide for guidelines for the management of fragility in elderly patients with diabetes mellitus (type2).
The recommendations provided by the professor of the Public University of Navarra (UPNA) Mikel Izquierdo Redín.
This expert advises a training program that combines strength, balance and marching in people over 70 years of age, as collectedRegular physical exercise.
In the article, collected by the aforementioned European Working Group on Diabetes in the elderly directed by the British Professor and Expert from the World Health Organization Alan Sinclair, Mikel Izquierdo highlights “the beneficial effects of physical activity on glycemic control andon cardiovascular risk factors associated with diabetes. ”
"Physical exercise should be considered as an effective intervention to improve the neuromuscular and cardiorespiratory function, as well as the functional capacity and quality of life of major diabetic patients," adds the professor, attached to the Department of Health Sciences, on the article, published in the magazine "The Journal of Frailty and Aging".
In this article, researchers from six countries (Australia, China, Spain, the United States, France and the United Kingdom have collaborated) and various recommendations (pharmacological, dietary and physical exercise) are collected to act on fragility syndrome in the elderly in the elderlyWith diabetes mellitus (especially, type 2), which, in addition to physical and cognitive deterioration, frequently causes falls and depression.