The potential of electric bicycles to improve the health of people with type 2 diabetes:a feasibility study
| Autor: | Angie S Page, Duncan Procter, Simon J Sebire, Clare England, Emma Ranger, Byron Tibbitts, Ashley R Cooper, Aidan Searle |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | Cooper, A, Tibbitts, B, England, C, Procter, D, Searle, A, Sebire, S, Ranger, E & Page, A 2018, ' The potential of electric bicycles to improve the health of people with type 2 diabetes : a feasibility study ', Diabetic Medicine . https://doi.org/10.1111/dme.13664 Diabetic Medicine |
| DOI: | 10.1111/dme.13664 |
| Popis: | Aim To explore in a feasibility study whether ‘e‐cycling’ was acceptable to, and could potentially improve the health of, people with Type 2 diabetes. Methods Twenty people with Type 2 diabetes were recruited and provided with an electric bicycle for 20 weeks. Participants completed a submaximal fitness test at baseline and follow‐up to measure predicted maximal aerobic power, and semi‐structured interviews were conducted to assess the acceptability of using an electric bicycle. Participants wore a heart rate monitor and a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver in the first week of electric bicycle use to measure their heart‐rate during e‐cycling. Results Eighteen participants completed the study, cycling a median (interquartile range) of 21.4 (5.5–37.7) km per week. Predicted maximal aerobic power increased by 10.9%. Heart rate during electric bicycle journeys was 74.7% of maximum, compared with 64.3% of maximum when walking. Participants used the electric bicycles for commuting, shopping and recreation, and expressed how the electric bicycle helped them to overcome barriers to active travel/cycling, such as hills. Fourteen participants purchased an electric bicycle on study completion. Conclusions There was evidence that e‐cycling was acceptable, could increase fitness and elicited a heart rate that may lead to improvements in cardiometabolic risk factors in this population. Electric bicycles have potential as a health‐improving intervention in people with Type 2 diabetes. What's new? No studies to date have explored the utility of electric bicycle (e‐bike) use in people with Type 2 diabetes.‘E‐cycling’ elicits a higher heart rate than walking in people with Type 2 diabetes.Preliminary evidence suggests that e‐cycling may be effective in increasing fitness in people with Type 2 diabetes.E‐cycling was popular, with two‐thirds of participants purchasing an e‐bike at the end of the study.As people with Type 2 diabetes are a population in which advice to increase physical activity is often ineffective, e‐cycling has good potential as a health‐improving intervention. |
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