Why the study?
Does yoga improve cardiovascular risk factors and autonomic balance in healthy individuals and patients with cardiovascular diseases?
Does yoga improve cardiovascular risk factors and autonomic balance in healthy individuals and patients with cardiovascular diseases?
Yoga may serve as an effective non-pharmacological adjunct for primary and secondary cardiovascular prevention by improving autonomic balance and metabolic profiles.
May support yoga as adjunct for autonomic and metabolic CV benefits; leaves open need for RCTs to confirm outcomes.
The review focuses on the influence of yoga on cardiovacular system in nearly healthy persons, on risk factors modification with yoga, improvement of cardiovascular profile. The data provided about the opportunities of yoga implementation for secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases. The results shown of recent studies, and further research perspectives briefly sketched.
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