Table 4.

Quality of Life, Respiratory muscle endurance, Respiratory muscle strength, Chest wall mobility and Cytokine levels at 4 weeks from discharge

	Characteristic	Physiotherapy Group N = 32	Yogatherapy Group N = 27	p value
Quality of life
1	Physical	69.7 ± 14.08	74.73 ± 9.99	0.13
2	Psychological	76.2 ± 11.60	79.8 ± 12.90	0.26
3	Social	65.6 ± 17.67	70.4 ± 14.68	0.27
4	Environmental	60.1 ± 14.97	64.7 ± 11.68	0.20
Respiratory muscle endurance
1	MVV	45.9 ± 13.44	56.4 ± 12.43	0.003
Respiratory muscle strength (in millimeters)
1	Diaphragm motion at normal breathing (Right)	18.85 ± 5.02	21.15 ± 4.05	0.06
2	Diaphragm motion at normal breathing (Left)	25.50 ± 7.44	26.14 ± 4.67	0.70
3	Diaphragm motion at deep breathing (Right)	25.90 ± 7.08	29.03 ± 5.16	0.06
4	Diaphragm motion at deep breathing (Left)	32.22 ± 7.55	35.47 ± 6.57	0.08
5	Diaphragm thickness at normal breathing (Right)	1.95 ± 0.57	2.04 ± 0.32	0.48
6	Diaphragm thickness at normal breathing (Left)	1.79 ± 0.47	1.83 ± 0.35	0.68
Chest Wall mobility (in Centimeters)
1	Axillary Cirtometry	3.6 ± 0.4	3.9 ± 0.35	0.009
2	Thoracic Cirtometry	4.5 ± 0.41	4.7 ± 0.41	0.057
Cytokine levels
1	IL2	317.4 ± 660.15	556.6 ± 1090.57	0.13
2	IL4	1202.8 ± 5770.68	1389.6 ± 5650.02	0.97
3	IL8	665.8 ± 1482.93	2948.4 ± 11,688.71	0.85
4	IL10	108.5 ± 92.93	80.7 ± 70.31	0.23
5	IL12	738.5 ± 2447.03	1138.8 ± 3972.88	0.67
6	TNF-α	89.9 ± 73.79	248.6 ± 511.81	0.19
7	IFN-γ	242.7 ± 314.84	355.2 ± 520.36	0.33

^*Independent t test was used, MVV Maximum voluntary ventilation, IL Interleukin, TNF-α Tumor Necrosis Factor-a, IFN-γ Interferon-γ,