Kyle J. Norton
People who participated in yoga classes are less likely to develop heart disease as yoga is found to normalize blood pressure in hypertension, one of the confounders, a renowned study suggested.
Hypertension is a condition of abnormally high blood pressure and is considered as one of the leading causes of heart disease.
Yoga, the ancient technique practice for harmonized external and internal body well-being, through breath control, meditation, bodily movement, and gesture..... has been well-known for people in the Western world and some parts of Asia due to health benefits reported by various respectable institutes research and supported by health advocates.
According to a joint study led by the Uttarakhand Ayurved University, yoga was the best form of physical exercise in reducing the risk of hypertension through increased blood flow to the brain and reduced stress impacting the brain's calming effects.
In a total of 64 participants (age 53.6 ± 13.1 years) (experimental group), with the result in comparison of the control group of 26 healthy volunteers, in 1-month yoga practice, the yoga group displayed an astonished improvement in decreased BMI (26.4 ± 2.5-25.22 ± 2.4), systolic BP (136.9 ± 22.18 mmHg to 133 ± 21.38 mmHg), and diastolic BP (84.7 ± 6.5 mmHg to 82.34 ± 7.6 mmHg). compared to the control.
Promisingly, Dr.Chauhan A, the lead author said, "Yoga practice has the potential to control BMI and BP without taking any medication".
Additionally, in the review of the literature published between 1946 and 2014 from periodicals indexed in Ovid Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Korea Med, and NDSL with keywords: "hypertension," "blood pressure," "psychotherapy," "relaxation therapy," "meditation," "yoga," and "mind-body therapy.", researchers at the joint study led by the Soonchunhyang University, indicated that participants attended yoga class expressed a significant decrease both systolic and diastolic BP, in compared to the baseline.
Compared to meditation students, the study suggested, "Meditation played a noticeable role in decreasing the BP of subjects older than 60 years of age, whereas yoga seemed to contribute to the decrease of subjects aged less than 60 years".
Even with the amazing result in both the meditation and yoga groups, Dr. Park SH, the lead author concerned, "While acknowledging the limitations of this research due to the differences in BP and the participants' ages, meditation and yoga are demonstrated to be effective alternatives to pharmacotherapy. Given that BP decreased with the use of meditation and yoga, and this effect varied in different age groups, scientifically measured outcomes indicate that these practices are safe alternatives in some cases".
In support of the above differentiation, Lund University filed 191 patients (mean age 64.7 years, s.d. 8.4) allocated to yoga intervention (n=96) and control group (n=95), with a total proportion of 52% women, multi-center randomized controlled trial with follow-up after 12-week yoga intervention completion, involved yoga's impact on blood pressure (BP) and quality of life (QOL) and on stress, depression, and anxiety in patients with hypertension, participants in yoga intervention showed a significant reduction in systolic and diastolic BP for both groups (-3.8/-1.7 mm Hg for yoga and -4.5/-3.0 mm Hg for control groups, respectively). and improvements in some of the QOL and depression measures (P<0.05, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, HADS-D) compared with the control.
Taking together, strong evidence suggested that yoga practice not only reduced risk and prevented the early onset of hypertension but also improved participants' stress and quality of life.
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Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrition, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published online, including worldwide health, ezine articles, article base, health blogs, self-growth, best before it's news, the Karate GB Daily, etc.,.
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Sources
(1) Yoga Practice Improves the Body Mass Index and Blood Pressure: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Chauhan A1, Semwal DK2, Mishra SP3, Semwal RB4. (PubMed)
(2) Blood Pressure Response to Meditation and Yoga: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Park SH1, Han KS2.(PubMed)
(3) Hypertension analysis of stress reduction using mindfulness meditation and yoga: results from the HARMONY randomized controlled trial by Blom K1, Baker B, How M, Dai M, Irvine J, Abbey S, Abramson BL, Myers MG, Kiss A, Perkins NJ, Tobe SW. (PubMed)
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