Recommendations from Diabetes UK’s 2022 diabetes and physical activity workshop
Aims
To describe the process and outputs of a workshop convened to identify key priorities for future research in the area of diabetes and physical activity and provide recommendations to researchers and research funders on how best to address them.
Methods
A one-day research workshop was conducted, bringing together researchers, people living with diabetes, healthcare professionals, and members of staff from Diabetes UK to identify and prioritise recommendations for future research into physical activity and diabetes.
Results
Workshop attendees prioritised four key themes for further research: (i) Better understanding of the physiology of exercise in all groups of people: in particular, what patient metabolic characteristics influence or predict the physiological response to physical activity, and the potential role of physical activity in beta cell preservation; (ii) Designing physical activity interventions for maximum impact; (iii) Promoting sustained physical activity across the life course ; (iv) Designing physical activity studies for groups with multiple long-term conditions.
Conclusions
This paper outlines recommendations to address the current gaps in knowledge related to diabetes and physical activity and calls on the research community to develop applications in these areas and funders to consider how to stimulate research in these areas.
Funding
Diabetes UK
Sport England
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
Diabetic MedicineVolume
40Issue
9Publisher
WileyVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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© Diabetes UKPublisher statement
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Morris, A, Bright, C, Cocks, M, et al. Recommendations from Diabetes UK's 2022 diabetes and physical activity workshop. Diabet Med. 2023; 40:e15169. doi:10.1111/dme.15169, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/dme.15169. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.Acceptance date
2023-06-20Publication date
2023-07-06Copyright date
2023ISSN
0742-3071eISSN
1464-5491Publisher version
Language
- en