Key result
Yoga could be considered an efficient adjuvant in reducing arrhythmia-related health problems, blood pressure, heart rate, depression, and anxiety scores, and in improving health-related quality of life.
Why the study?
Although yoga suggests safety and efficacy for arrhythmia-related risk factors and quality of life, no systematic review had previously evaluated its role in cardiac arrhythmias.
Does yoga improve arrhythmia episodes, hemodynamic parameters, and quality of life in patients with cardiac arrhythmias?
Systematic Review
Does yoga improve arrhythmia episodes, hemodynamic parameters, and quality of life in patients with cardiac arrhythmias?
Yoga may be a safe and effective adjuvant therapy for reducing arrhythmia burden, improving hemodynamics, and enhancing quality of life in patients with cardiac arrhythmias.
May support yoga as arrhythmia adjuvant; leaves open need for larger RCTs to confirm.
Evidence suggests that yoga is safe and effective in improving various risk factors, quality of life (QoL), and psychological burden that is related to arrhythmia. However, this is the first-ever systematic review performed to report the role of yoga in arrhythmia. We have performed a literature search using Cochrane Library, Medline/PubMed, Web of Science Core Collection, and IndMED electronic databases up to 3, January 2018. Of 240 articles, 6 potentially eligible articles were identified and included in the review. Results showed that yoga could be considered an efficient adjuvant in reducing arrhythmia (paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachyarrhythmia, and palpitation) related health problems; blood pressure, heart rate, depression and anxiety scores; and in improving health-related QoL of arrhythmia patients. However, there is a lack of randomized controlled trials and a clear mechanism behind the effect of yoga; studies had relatively a small sample size and different yoga protocols.
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Sharma et al. (2021) conducted a systematic review in Cardiac arrhythmias. Yoga vs. Standard medical care or control phase was evaluated on Arrhythmia episodes, electrocardiogram changes, hemodynamic changes, exercise capacity, psychological burden, and health-related QoL. Yoga could be considered an efficient adjuvant in reducing arrhythmia-related health problems, blood pressure, heart rate, depression, and anxiety scores, and in improving health-related quality of life.
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