TNF and diabetes mellitus: Aerobic exercise and control groups did not differ on baseline HbA1c, age, gender, duration of diabetes, BMI, waist circumference, systolic and diastolic arterial pressure, low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c), triglyceride (TG), total cholesterol (TC), MDA, and TNF-α levels (Table 1; P > 0.05).