Exercise Therapy for Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Superior Efficacy of Activity Monitors over Pedometers

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Patient selection process. After excluding those patients who cancelled, transferred to other hospitals, or dropped out, the data of 187 patients were subjected to analysis. After excluding patients with insufficient exercise therapy record data, unachieved exercise goals, and changes in medications in the 6 months before and after the start of the study period, data of 28 patients of each group were compared and studied.