Muscle-strengthening, conditioning in women associated with reduced risk of diabetes

Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 13:30 in Health & Medicine

Aerobic exercise is known to prevent type 2 diabetes, and muscle-strengthening alone or in combination with aerobic exercise improves diabetic control among those with diabetes. Although men who weight train have been found to have an associated reduced risk of developing diabetes, whether such an association exists for women has not been established.

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