Abstract: Abstract Objective: The aim of this project was to investigate the effects of a community comprehensive intervention program on middle aged and the elderly diabetes patients. It includes improvement of exercise, blood glucose, blood pressure and diabetes -related risk factors. Methods: A randomized controlled community trial was conducted. 124 diabetes patients were selected and randomly assigned to intervention group and control group. The intervention group was given comprehensive intervention for 6 months. The control group was not given any intervention. The changes of two groups’ physical activity, blood glucose, blood pressure and diabetes-related risk factors before and after intervention were analyzed using SSPS 13.0 software package carry out covariance and multivariate analysis of variance. Results: The results showed that intervention group ’ s total physical activity MET on average increased by 446.01 ± 801.74MET / week, fasting serum glucose level reduced by1.40±2.16 mmol/L, two-hour post prandial blood glucose fell by an average 1.39 ± 2.99 mmol / L, waist to hip ratio reduced and body mass index reduced over an 6-month integrated intervention. Both of them had significant statistically difference between two groups (P<0.05). Conclusion: Results of the study indicates that integrated intervention model can be effective in control of diabetes and its related risk factors in elderly diabetes patients.

Key words: diabetes mellitus, type 2, exercise intervention, health education, covariance analysis, multivariate analysis of variance