Comparação do índice tornozelo-braço diabéticos que realizam exercícios físicos e sedentários

Abstract

Background: Peripheral arterial disease is one of the complications of diabetes, among the tests for diagnosis of arterial insufficiency, we use the ankle-brachial index, and a simple, inexpensive, noninvasive and reproducible. Objectives: To compare the ankle-brachial index in diabetic patients practice physical exercise and sedentary. 3 Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study with 62 diabetic patients divided into group 1-exercising and sedentary group 2, the data collection was conducted through a questionnaire and inspection of the lower limbs, and the measurement of the systolic brachial, dorsalis pedis and tibialis later using the Doppler Ultrasonic portable 10MHz. Descriptive statistics, Student t test for independent samples and Spearman's test used to identify the correlation between age and the presence or absence of Peripheral Arterial Disease. Results: We observed slight correlation (p = 0.003) between Peripheral Arterial Disease and age and a prevalence of Peripheral Arterial Disease in the group of practitioners of exercise was higher compared to the sedentary group, with 58.6% and 54 , 8%, respectively. Conclusions: Regardless of physical exercise, the groups were relatively similar in the ankle-brachial index.