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Trial reportJournal of human hypertension2016

Impact of a short home-based yoga programme on blood pressure in patients with hypertension: a randomized controlled trial in primary care.

M Wolff, K Rogers, B Erdal, J P Chalmers, K Sundquist, P Midlöv

Abstract readMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Journal of human hypertension, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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21 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  19. The Effect of Three Different Meditation Exercises on Hypertension: A Network Meta-Analysis.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2017
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

M WolffDepartment of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Center for Primary Health Care Research, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
K RogersThe George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
B ErdalDepartment of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Center for Primary Health Care Research, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
J P ChalmersThe George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
K SundquistDepartment of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Center for Primary Health Care Research, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
P MidlövDepartment of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Center for Primary Health Care Research, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The present study was designed to evaluate yoga's impact on blood pressure (BP) and quality of life (QOL) and on stress, depression and anxiety in patients with hypertension in a primary care setting. We conducted a multi-centre randomized controlled trial with follow-up after 12-week intervention completion. Adult primary care patients diagnosed with hypertension were randomly allocated to yoga or usual care. The intervention group performed a short home-based Kundalini yoga programme 15 min twice-daily during the 12-week intervention period. At baseline and follow-up, the participants underwent standardized BP measurements and completed questionnaires on QOL, stress, anxiety and depression. Data obtained from 191 patients (mean age 64.7 years, s.d. 8.4) allocated to yoga intervention (n=96) and control group (n=95), with a total proportion of 52% women, showed a significant reduction in systolic and diastolic BP for both groups (-3.8/-1.7 mm Hg for yoga and -4.5/-3.0 mm Hg for control groups, respectively). However, the BP reduction for the yoga group was not significantly different from control. There were small but significant improvements for the yoga group in some of the QOL and depression measures (P<0.05, Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale, HADS-D) compared with control. The findings of our study, which is the largest study from an OECD country (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) to date, do not support the suggestion from previous smaller studies that yoga lowers the BP. Further clinical trials are needed to confirm these findings. However, the yoga patients had other health benefits.

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Blood PressurePrimary Health CareYogaAdultAgedFemaleHumansHypertensionMaleMiddle AgedOutcome Assessment, Health Care

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PMID26791478

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