Exercise Not Proven to Prevent Diabetes During Pregnancy

News Health Articles - Exercise Not Proven to Prevent Diabetes During Pregnancy. To maintain fitness, pregnant one should not exercise. But do not expect this activity can not necessarily prevent the risk of diabetes, because only the best prevention is to keep your weight has not been pregnant since.

A clinical trial showed that women who exercise during pregnancy have an increased risk of diabetes or diabetes-related pregnancy getational lower. But that does not prove that exercise can prevent diabetes, because clinical trial participants had normal weight so it does not at risk.



The results of new studies have been published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology. The study has involved 855 pregnant women who were randomly join an exercise program or just continue regular prenatal care.

All study participants were between 18-22 weeks of pregnancy. Participants who are in a group exercise program to take classes for one hour once a week for 12 weeks. Sports that they do, such as aerobics, strengthening exercises, and stretching exercises. They were also instructed to perform exercises at home twice a week. In the end, the exercise program showed no effect on the level of gestational diabetes.

"The main problem is that only 55 percent of women in the group of participants who do sports really stuck with their routines. The results of these studies indicate that, very difficult to condition pregnant women to exercise regularly," said Dr. Rita W. Driggers, of the Washington Hospital Center, Washington, as quoted by HealthNews, Tuesday (01/03/2012).

About 13 percent of women in the study had to exercise three times a week with moderate to high intensity when the study began. Exercise with the appropriate level to be recommended for pregnant women.

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends that healthy pregnant women should remain physically active. Physical activity may be either mild activity, such as walking for 30 minutes a day.

"The game begins in the second trimester is too late. It could be that exercise before pregnancy and in early pregnancy it is more important, because metabolic changes occur early in pregnancy," said Stafne.

The women in this study are also relatively low risk for gestational diabetes because their average in the range of body weight when they begin to follow the study.

"A study that focused on women are overweight and obese will probably find different results. Because women with overweight and obesity are at increased risk of gestational diabetes," said Stafne.

Further research is still needed to know the best way to reduce the risk of gestational diabetes in pregnant women.