Physical activity and diabetes.

Although physical activity is frequently recommended in the management of type Idiabetes it has not yet been established whether practising regular exercise could actually improve the long-term outcome of metabolic control. In this follow-up study we assessed the impact of long-term physical activity in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus. We studied longitudinally 69 patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus, 43 boys and 26 girls aged at onset of the disease 8.