title: Remedial actions for the physical inactivity of hospitalized patients with type 2 diabetes.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Physical inactivity is often suspected in hospitalized patients with type 2 diabetes but has yet to be quantified.
  
  
  METHODS
  We measured the level of physical activity of 36 hospitalized (H) and 36 free-living nonhospitalized (NH) type 2 diabetic subjects with actimeters (SenseWear Arm-Band).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The number of steps (H: 4,381 +/- 3,742 steps/24 h, NH: 7,220 +/- 4,763 steps/24 h; P < 0.01), duration of physical activity (H: 45 +/- 57 min/24 h, NH: 148 +/- 116 min/24 h; P < 0.005), and physical activity expenditure (H: 287 +/- 390 kcal/24 h, NH: 1,035 +/- 1,006 kcal/24 h; P < 0.005) were two- to threefold lower in the hospitalized patients. Simple advice enabled us to increase their recorded levels of physical activity by approximately 50% (P < 0.005), and a further 50% (P < 0.05) was obtained by the use of a pedometer.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The physical inactivity of hospitalized patients with type 2 diabetes is significant and remediable, although the advice given must take into account the existence of sensory neuropathy and silent myocardial ischemia.
authors.affiliation: Nutrition-Diabétologie, Hôpital Haut-Lévêque, Avenue de Magellan, Pessac, France.
authors.forename: Sandrine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pezzino
authors.forename: Stéphane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Florenty
authors.forename: Cédric
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fagour
authors.forename: Henri
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gin
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Rigalleau
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*