Resistance training does not change glucose and cardiac autonomic function of patients with type 2 diabetes

Objective: to evaluate the influence of a RT protocol on the function autonomic heart rate and cardiovascular variables in patients with DM-2. Methods: 9 patients with DM-2 participated in the study. After initial evaluation, data collection was performed regarding the RR intervals (iR-R) of the frequency heart rate (HR) and systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressures while performing Function Tests Autonomic Cardiac Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Accentuating Maneuver (ABR), Active Postural Maneuver (APM), Valsalva Maneuver (ValM), Handgrip Test and the HR, SBP, DBP and double product (DP) data were also analyzed under the pre and post RT. RT was applied with moderate intensity of 60% of 1RM, exercises for lower and upper limbs, twice a week for 12 weeks. Results: the variations of the calculated indices for the TFACs did not show differences significant statistics (p>0.05). PAS, PAD and FC also showed no difference However, the PD showed a decrease at rest (∆= -990.55 ±1154.91) Conclusions: the moderate RT with 12 weeks, in patients with DM-2, does not promote any change in the function autonomic cardiac output but decreases myocardial overload by attenuating PD at rest.