Exercise training for patients with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease: What to pursue and how to do it

Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus suffer from dysregulation of a plethora of cardiovascular and metabolic functions, including dysglycaemia, dyslipidaemia, arterial hypertension, obesity and a reduced cardiorespiratory fitness. Exercise training has the potential to improve many of these functions, such as insulin sensitivity, lipid profile, vascular reactivity and cardiorespiratory fitness, particularly in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients with cardiovascular comorbidities, such as patients that suffered from an acute myocardial infarction, or after a coronary intervention such as percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass grafting.

Source: Exercise training for patients with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease: What to pursue and how to do it. A Position Paper of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC) – Hareld Kemps, Nicolle Kränkel, Marcus Dörr, Trine Moholdt, Matthias Wilhelm, Francesco Paneni, Luis Serratosa, Erik Ekker Solberg, Dominique Hansen, Martin Halle, Marco Guazzi, 2019