Yoga Practice for the Management of Type II Diabetes Mellitus in Adults: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT: The effect of practicing yoga for the management of type II Diabetes was assessed in this systematic review through searching related electronic databases and the grey literature to the end of May 2007 using Ovid. All randomized controlled clinical trials (RCTs) comparing yoga practice with other type of intervention or with regular practice or both, were included regardless of language or type of publication. Each study was assessed for quality by two independent reviewers. Mean difference was used for summarizing the effect of each study outcomes with 95% confidence intervals. Pooling of the studies did not take place due to the wide clinical variation between the studies. Publication bias was assessed by statistical methods. Five trials with 363 participants met the inclusion criteria w

SUBMITTER: Aljasir B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2892348 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature