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Randomized Controlled Trial

doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2011.06.042.

Karen E Foster-Schubert, Ikuyo Imayama, Angela Kong, Liren Xiao, Carolyn Bain, Kristin L Campbell, Ching-Yun Wang, Catherine R Duggan, Cornelia M Ulrich, Catherine M Alfano, George L Blackburn, Anne McTiernan

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Randomized Controlled Trial

Dietary weight loss and exercise effects on insulin resistance in postmenopausal women

Caitlin Mason et al. Am J Prev Med. 2011 Oct.

Abstract

Background: Comprehensive lifestyle interventions are effective in preventing diabetes and restoring glucose regulation; however, the key stimulus for change has not been identified and effects in older individuals are not established. The aim of the study was to investigate the independent and combined effects of dietary weight loss and exercise on insulin sensitivity and restoration of normal fasting glucose in middle-aged and older women.

Design: Four-arm RCT, conducted between 2005 and 2009 and data analyzed in 2010.

Setting/participants: 439 inactive, overweight/obese postmenopausal women.

Interventions: Women were assigned to: dietary weight loss (n=118); exercise (n=117); exercise+diet (n=117); or control (n=87). The diet intervention was a group-based reduced-calorie program with a 10% weight-loss goal. The exercise intervention was 45 min/day, 5 days/week of moderate-to-vigorous intensity aerobic activity.

Main outcome measures: 12-month change in serum insulin, C-peptide, fasting glucose, and whole body insulin resistance (HOMA-IR).

Results: A significant improvement in HOMA-IR was detected in the diet (-24%, p<0.001) and exercise+ diet (-26%, p<0.001) groups but not in the exercise (-9%, p=0.22) group compared with controls (-2%); these effects were similar in middle-aged (50-60 years) and older women (aged 60-75 years). Among those with impaired fasting glucose (5.6-6.9 mmol/L) at baseline (n=143; 33%), the odds (95% CI) of regressing to normal fasting glucose after adjusting for weight loss and baseline levels were 2.5 (0.8, 8.4); 2.76 (0.8, 10.0); and 3.1 (1.0, 9.9) in the diet, exercise+diet, and exercise group, respectively, compared with controls.

Conclusions: Dietary weight loss, with or without exercise, significantly improved insulin resistance. Older women derived as much benefit as did the younger postmenopausal women.

Trial registration: This study is registered at Clinicaltrials.govNCT00470119.

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Flow of participants through the Nutrition and Exercise in Women (NEW) trial Note: DXA, dual emission X-ray absorptiometry

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