Table 3.
Quality assessment | No of patients (yoga: control) | Effect SMD (95% CI) | Quality | ||||||
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No. of studies | Design | Risk of bias | Inconsistency | Indirectness | Imprecision | Other considerations | |||
19 | RCT | No serious risk of bias | Serious1 | No serious indirectness | No serious imprecision | None | 458 : 490 | SMD = 0.27, 95% CI = 0.23–0.31, I 2 = 94.4% | Moderate |
1Baseline differences between groups in at least 5 studies.