DiabetAction: Changes in Physical Activity Practice, Fitness, and Metabolic Syndrome in Type 2 Diabetic and At-Risk Individuals
Bibliographic record
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To study the changes in physical activity (PA) level, body composition, fitness, and health parameters after the DiabetAction program and evaluate if PA level was maintained during follow-up. DESIGN: The design of this quasi-experimental study was 1-group pre-test and post-test. SETTINGS: The study was conducted at the sport center (CEPSUM) of the University of Montreal. PARTICIPANTS: Out of the 39 subjects from different ethnic backgrounds with type 2 diabetes (T2D) or risk factors (obesity, insulin resistance, or familial history of T2D) who joined the program, 29 subjects took part in at least 50% of group sessions and performed post-intervention evaluations. Analyses were done using those 29 participants. INTERVENTION: DiabetAction is a 10-week program designed for health and exercise professionals who want to introduce type 2 diabetic (T2D) and at-risk individuals to various modalities of exercise (cardiovascular, resistance, flexibility, and balance) in order to increase activity levels. MAIN OUTCOME MEASUREMENTS: PA level, aerobic capacity, hand grip strength, dynamic balance, anthropometry, resting heart rate and blood pressure, fasting blood lipids and glucose, and metabolic syndrome prevalence. RESULTS: A significant increase in PA practice was observed after the 10-week program, and more importantly was maintained during the 6-month follow-up. Significant increases in aerobic capacity, muscular strength at the hand, and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol were also observed post-intervention. After the program, significant reductions in body weight, waist circumference, skinfolds thickness, resting heart rate, and systolic blood pressure were reported. Overall, a reduction in the prevalence of metabolic syndrome was measured post-intervention. CONCLUSION: Participants improved their fitness, cardiovascular risk factors, and PA level after their participation to the DiabetAction program, and those promising results justify further validation studies.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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