Yoga for essential hypertension: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Yoga is thought to be effective for health conditions. The article aims to assess the current clinical evidence of yoga for Essential hypertension (EH).

Strategy

MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) in the Cochrane Library were searched until June, 2013. We included randomized clinical trials testing yoga against conventional therapy, yoga versus no treatment, yoga combined with conventional therapy versus conventional therapy or conventional therapy combined with breath awareness. Study selection, data extraction, quality assessment, and data analyses were conducted according to the Cochrane standards.

Results

A total of 6 studies (involving 386 patients) were included. The methodological quality of the included

SUBMITTER: Wang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3790704 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature