Yoga as a Supportive Therapy for Patients With Hypertension

Universität Duisburg-Essen

Status

Completed

Conditions

Hypertension

Treatments

Behavioral: Yoga without Asana (yoga postures)

Behavioral: Yoga with Asana (yoga postures)

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02727140

15-6726-BO

Details and patient eligibility

About

The proposed study aims to investigate the feasibility, effectiveness, and perceived benefit of a supportive hatha yoga intervention for patients with hypertension using antihypertensive drugs. Patients will be randomized into 3 groups comparing hatha yoga with yoga postures, breathing and relaxation techniques to a hatha yoga intervention without yoga postures (only breathing and relaxation techniques) as well as to a wait list control group.

Enrollment

75 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 75 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

essential Hypertension
stable antihypertensive medication during the next 6 months

Exclusion criteria

pregnancy or breast feeding
simultaneous participation in further clinical intervention trials
regular yoga practice in the past 12 months
serious mental illness (severe depression, severe addiction, psychosis)
manifest coronary heart disease that has been treated in the past 3 months or myocardial infarction, embolism of pulmonary arteries or stroke in the past 3 months
heart failure ≥ state 1 New York Heart Association (NYHA)
peripheral arterial occlusive disease ≥ state 1
renal insufficiency > state 2, glomerular filtration rate < 60 ml/min/1,73m² according to he National Kidney Foundation (NKF)