By Michael Monostra
Physical activity performed in the afternoon could yield a greater reduction in HbA1c than physical activity during other times in the day, according to an analysis of data from the Look AHEAD trial published in Diabetes Care.
“This is the first large-scale epidemiological study demonstrating that timing of unsupervised physical activity is associated with long-term improvement in blood glucose in type 2 diabetes,” Jingyi Qian, PhD, associate physiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Roeland J.W. Middelbeek, MD, MSc, assistant investigator and staff physician at the Joslin Diabetes Center and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, told Healio. Read the full story in Healio.