“…After screening the titles of the rest of the 2421 articles, 288 were selected for the abstract and full-text assessment, and 37 of them were included in this study, which met the required inclusion criteria. Out of 37, 13 articles were excluded with the following reasons: control group was not diabetic in three trials [23,24,25], data presented as mean difference or no comparable diabetic control trial in seven studies [13,15,23,26,27,28,29], two articles with insufficient exercise intensity details [30,31] and same data used in different articles [32]. Finally, 24 articles [19,20,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54] were included in the meta-analysis.…”