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Wearables May Boost T2D Mobility

Outpatient intervention combined physiotherapist counseling with wrist-worn activity monitoring.

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  • Kathryn Wighton

  • May 11, 2026

  • 4 min

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    Physiotherapist-guided exercise with wearable feedback improved 6-minute walk distance in type 2 diabetes patients over 6 months.

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    The intervention group showed a 39-m gain in walk distance, while the nonintervention group experienced a decline.

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    Glycated hemoglobin decreased by 0.89 percentage points in the intervention group compared to the control.

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    No significant differences in estimated glomerular filtration rate were observed between the groups during the study.

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    The study's limitations include its single-center design, modest sample size, and lack of a control group without wearable feedback.

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Wearables May Boost T2D Mobility

  • by Kathryn Wighton

  • May 11, 2026

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