Quick fix for insulin resistance?A 7-day course of walking or stationary biking helped some women turn around a dangerous condition called insulin resistance Insulin Resistance Definition Insulin resistance is not a disease as such but rather a state or condition in which a person's body tissues have a lowered level of response to insulin, a hormone secreted by the pancreas that helps to regulate the level . Researcher Michael D. Brown
Michael DeWayne Brown (born November 8, 1954) was Undersecretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response (EP&R), a division of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a , now at the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. in Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, city (1990 pop. 109,592), seat of Washtenaw co., S Mich., on the Huron River; inc. 1851. It is a research and educational center, with a large number of government and industrial research and development firms, many in high-technology fields such as , and his colleagues studied black women with the condition, in which the body's cells don't respond readily to insulin's message to take up fuel in the form of glucose. Insulin resistance can lead to high blood pressure, which disproportionately affects black people in the United States. People with high blood pressure face a greater risk of heart attacks, stroke, and kidney failure kidney failure or renal failure Partial or complete loss of kidney function. Acute failure causes reduced urine output and blood chemical imbalance, including uremia. Most patients recover within six weeks. . The new study showed that even a short regimen of exercise could improve insulin's ability to remove glucose from the blood. The team noted that only 6 of 11 women remained insulin-resistant after the exercise program, which required about an hour a day of moderate cycling or walking. The study, published in the December Hypertension, suggests that women, and particularly black women, may reap a dramatic health benefit from a regular exercise program. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion