Trial reportJournal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.)2016
Blood Pressure Effects of Yoga, Alone or in Combination With Lifestyle Measures: Results of the Lifestyle Modification and Blood Pressure Study (LIMBS).
Trial report in Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pooled it
- An updated network meta-analysis of non-pharmacological interventions for primary hypertension in adults: insights from recent studies.Systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Content, Structure, and Delivery Characteristics of Yoga Interventions for Managing Hypertension: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Frontiers in public health · 2022Pooled it
- Effect of Yoga on Blood Pressure in Prehypertension: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.TheScientificWorldJournal · 2021Pooled it
- Blood Pressure Effects of Yoga, Alone or in Combination With Lifestyle Measures: Results of the Lifestyle Modification and Blood Pressure Study (LIMBS).Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2016Trial
- Exploring the Efficacy of Integrating Yoga and Ayurveda for Hypertension Treatment.Current hypertension reviews · 2025Review
- The Psychophysiological Profile and Cardiac Autonomic Reactivity in Long-Term Female Yoga Practitioners: A Comparison with Runners and Sedentary Individuals.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Effect of Behavioral Changes on the Treatment of Hypertension.Current hypertension reports · 2021Review
- Susceptibility of Women to Cardiovascular Disease and the Prevention Potential of Mind-Body Intervention by Changes in Neural Circuits and Cardiovascular Physiology.Biomolecules · 2021Review
- A Comparison of Blood Viscosity and Hematocrit Levels between Yoga Practitioners and Sedentary Adults.International journal of exercise science · 2019Article
- The Effect of Three Different Meditation Exercises on Hypertension: A Network Meta-Analysis.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2017Article
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Abstract
The authors conducted a study to assess the effects of yoga on blood pressure (BP). Patients were randomized to yoga (Blood Pressure Education Program [BPEP]), or a combined program (COMBO). Ambulatory BP was measured at baseline and at 12 and 24 weeks. Data are presented for all enrolled patients (n=137) and for completers only (n=90). Systolic BP (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP) were significantly decreased within all groups at 12 and 24 weeks (P<.001) for enrolled patients and completers. SBP was significantly reduced in the yoga and COMBO groups as compared with the BPEP group at 12 weeks in all enrolled and completers. SBP differences were no longer significant at 24 weeks between groups in all enrolled patients; however, there was a greater reduction in SBP at 24 weeks in completers favoring BPEP over yoga. No differences in DBP between groups or in BP between the yoga and COMBO groups were present. The authors did not observe an additive benefit from combining yoga with BPEP measures. Reasons for this are unclear at this time. BP lowering with yoga, however, was similar to that achieved with lifestyle measures.
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