Deans' stroke musings: The effect of three different meditation exercises on hypertension: A network meta-analysis

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Saturday, April 29, 2017

The effect of three different meditation exercises on hypertension: A network meta-analysis

I bet your doctor is choosing between 3-4 different blood pressure drugs and has no recommendation on this. But then you should already be meditating to help your stroke recovery. 41 posts on meditation which your doctor has already told you about.
https://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/medical-news-article/2017/04/27/hypertension/7150281/?

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Yang H, et al.

An observational study was carried out to utilize the pairwise and network meta–analysis to assessment the impacts of various meditation exercises on the control of systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP). Qigong may be the optimal exercise way in lowering SBP and DBP of hypertensive patients, but a detailed long–term clinical research ought to be required later on.

They designed a network meta–analysis.
For this study, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were retrieved from PubMed and Embase up to June 2016, which are published in English and reported on meditation exercise for hypertensive patients.
Risks of bias evaluation of the included studies were evaluated by Cochrane Collaboration Recommendations and network meta–analysis was performed by ADDIS.
Mean difference (MD) and its 95% confidence interval (CI) were utilized as the effect size.
In this study, total 19 RCTs were included.
The outcomes of pairwise comparisons showed that meditation exercise could majorly reduce the SBP and DBP, compared with other interventions (MD = –7.10, 95% CI: –10.82 to –3.39; MD = –4.02, 95% CI: –6.12 to –1.92).
With good consistence and convergence, network meta–analysis demonstrated that there were no important differences between meditation and other interventions on SBP.
For DBP, Qigong was significantly lower than “no intervention” (MD = –11.73, 95% CI: –19.85 to –3.69).