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).
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