The physical fitness of 19 people with moderate Pompe’s disease who took part in a 12-week personalised training programme in the Netherlands in 2011 was compared with that of 10 similar people, in terms of age and duration of illness.
- Sixteen were considered active according to WHO criteria: 9 participants continued the 2011 exercise programme, two to three times a week for 10 years, and seven belonged to the control group.
- Thirteen participants were considered physically inactive: 10 stopped the 2011 exercise programme, either immediately or one to four years later, and three were in the control group.
- The physically active participants had significantly better endurance and muscular strength than the inactive participants.
- Muscular endurance and strength tended to be better in the active people who continued with the personalised exercise programme than in the active controls.
