Adapted from BMJ 29 April 23 from Diabetes Care.
500 people with type one diabetes were randomised to three types of exercise and their blood sugars were monitored over a four week period.
Aerobic exercise led to the greatest fall in blood sugar compared to interval training or resistance training. In the 24 hours after exercise, regardless of the type of exercise, participants spent longer within a plasma glucose range of 3.9 to 10 mmol/l, compared to days when they did not exercise.
Adapted from Arthritis Care.
Four years of follow up in 3,000 adults found that osteoarthritis of the knee tended to worsen clinically and radiographically in people who gained weight. Conversely it improved in people who lost weight.
However, weight gain and loss had no apparent effect on osteoarthritis of the hip either symptomatically or on X ray.
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