Journal of Aging Research

Review Article

Resistance Training and Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Strength of the Evidence

Table 2

Participant characteristics.
SourceGroup ( š‘› )Age (years)Gender (M/F) Whole body fat mass (kg)BMI (kg/m2)Diabetes
duration (years) 		HbA1c (%)Fasting glucose (mmol/L)Fasting insulin (pmol/L)
* Brooks et al. [17]
Castaneda et al. [13]		Exercise 31
Control 31		 6 6 Ā± 1 1 . 1
6 6 Ā± 5 . 6 		10/21
19/12 		3 5 Ā± 5 . 6
3 3 . 7 Ā± 1 3 . 4 		3 0 . 9 Ā± 6 . 1
3 1 . 2 Ā± 5 . 6 		8 Ā± 5 . 6
1 1 Ā± 5 . 6 		8 . 7 Ā± 5 . 6
8 . 4 Ā± 1 . 7 		8 . 7 9 Ā± 2 . 7
9 . 8 5 Ā± 3 . 8 		1 1 6 Ā± 1 6 7 . 4
1 1 5 Ā± 1 7 6 . 9
Dunstan et al. [53]Exercise 16
Control 13		 6 7 . 6 Ā± 5 . 2
6 6 . 5 Ā± 5 . 3 		10/6
6/7		 3 3 . 1 Ā± 7 . 4
3 5 . 6 Ā± 6 . 8 		3 1 . 5 Ā± 3 . 7
3 2 . 5 Ā± 3 . 8 		7 . 6 Ā± 5 . 4
8 . 8 Ā± 7 . 9 		8 . 1 Ā± 1
7 . 5 Ā± 1 . 1 		9 . 5 Ā± 2 . 3
9 . 4 Ā± 2 . 1 		1 3 2 . 9 Ā± 6 3
1 0 1 . 9 Ā± 2 5 . 8
All measures are provided as means Ā± SD.
*Brooks et al. [17] and Castaneda et al. [13] included the same cohort of participants.