Introduction:

The incidence of overweight and obesity worldwide has increased three times in the last 40 years. It has been determined that the affected population has lower levels of physical activity compared to the healthy population, as well as an association between a high time in sedentary behavior and obesity. Therefore, all interventions aimed at reducing time in sedentary behavior could eventually improve the cardiometabolic health of people who are overweight or obese.Thus, the objective of this study was to demonstrate the effects of breaks in sedentary behavior, with short episodes of physical activity, on glycemic control parameters in overweight and obese people.

Material and Method:

A systematic search for randomized clinical trials, crossover randomized clinical trials, and pilot studies was performed. For this, the following databases were considered: PubMed, Cochrane, EBSCO, WoS, ScienceDirect and Medline.

Results:

94 studies on the subject were identified, which were analyzed with the COVIDENCE platform. For the final study, 10 articles were selected, totaling 185 patients. The results show that breaks in sedentary behavior in overweight or obese people increase insulin sensitivity, decrease the incremental area under the curve of glucose, incremental area under the curve of insulin, and fasting and postprandial glycemia.

Conclusion:

Acute interventions of up to 5 days in SB, with PA of mild to moderate intensity, induce improvements in indicators of glycemic control in people with overweight or obesity