Key result
Practicing yoga reduced systolic and diastolic blood pressure in adult patients with hypertension across 9 of 11 reviewed studies comprising 957 total participants.
Why the study?
Does yoga reduce systolic and diastolic blood pressure in adult patients with hypertension?
Population
957 adult patients with hypertension across 11 studies (6 RCTs, 2 matched controlled, 3 interventional)
Design
Systematic_review
Authors
Loading...
May support yoga as adjunctive therapy for hypertension; reinforces evidence from mostly positive interventional studies.
Systematic Review (n=957)
Does yoga reduce systolic and diastolic blood pressure in adult patients with hypertension?
Practicing yoga may be an effective non-pharmacological intervention to reduce systolic and diastolic blood pressure in adults with hypertension.
Murray et al. (2018) conducted a systematic review in Hypertension (n=957). Yoga was evaluated on Systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Practicing yoga reduced systolic and diastolic blood pressure in adult patients with hypertension across 9 of 11 reviewed studies comprising 957 total participants.
Synapse has enriched 5 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context: