New data: Yoga therapy may help boost the effect of guideline-directed medical therapy on heart failure outcomes — with caveats.
The addition of a year-long customized yoga therapy intervention to guideline-directed medical therapy appears to significantly improve heart failure measures associated with long-term prognosis, findings from an Indian study suggested.congress on May 12, involved 105 patients assigned to yoga plus GDMT or GDMT alone and demonstrated that there was a large shift in the New York Heart Association functional class from baseline to the 52-week follow-up.
For yoga therapy to be considered in clinical practice, a randomized study is required, said session cochair Dana Dawson, MD, PhD, professor of cardiovascular medicine and lead of the Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland. "It is effective in implementing a change," she said,"and whether that change is clinically effective needs to be tested in a clinic in a randomized study."Yoga may be different from other exercise and lifestyle interventions because it is"also about meditation and meeting with your own self," which corresponds to a form of cognitive behavioral therapy, albeit"conducted in singular manner," she added.
Evidence from the literature indicates that yoga and other lifestyle modifications can improve the quality of life of patients with heart failure, alongside measures such as left ventricular ejection fraction and NYHA functional class, he said. However, the researchers did not find any study that looked at yoga therapy as an adjunct to standard-of-care treatment.
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