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Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases

Western University

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2022

Exercise

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Advancing Type 2 Diabetes As A Condition For Primary Referral To Physiotherapy In Canada, Sarah M. Janssen Jul 2022

Advancing Type 2 Diabetes As A Condition For Primary Referral To Physiotherapy In Canada, Sarah M. Janssen

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Obesity and sedentary lifestyle are increasingly prevalent risk factors for type 2 diabetes (T2D), characterized by high blood glucose levels. Adoption and maintenance of healthy eating, physical activity, and exercise is recommended for lowering blood glucose and weight management. Physiotherapists are experts in prescribing safe, effective exercise to optimize health for people with co-morbid health conditions. However, T2D is not a primary condition for referral to physiotherapy services in Canada. The overall question guiding a series of three related studies was, What is the current education and perspectives of Canadian physiotherapists about their role in managing T2D? Study one surveyed …


Increased Lipid Metabolism In Response To Repetitive Aerobic Exercise During Proestrus In Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Rats, Silar Gardy May 2022

Increased Lipid Metabolism In Response To Repetitive Aerobic Exercise During Proestrus In Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Rats, Silar Gardy

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In response to repetitive bouts of aerobic exercise, type I diabetes mellitus (T1DM) female rats demonstrate greater post-exercise blood glucose (BG) recovery during proestrus than T1DM males. Fuel selection differences may explain sex-related differences in the blunted counterregulatory responses to subsequent exercise and estrogen (E2) has shown to mediate fuel metabolism. Evidence of E2’s activation of AMP-kinase (AMPK) may mediate the metabolic actions of E2. This study aimed to examine sex-related differences in lipid and glucose metabolism in response to a 4-day aerobic exercise protocol in skeletal muscle and liver tissue of male and female T1DM-induced (n = 5) and …