TABLE 3.

Comparison of the rest and meditation cohorts. When the effect size and fractional change are positive, the metric measured for the meditation cohort is larger. A negative effect size and fractional change imply that the metric measured for the rest cohort is larger.

Metric	Chi meditation			Yoga meditation
	Effect Size	Stat. Sig. ?	Fractional Change	Effect Size	Stat. Sig. ?	Fractional Change
ABI	3.9	Yes	2.79	5.0	Yes	1.42
Resp. Rate	−6.1	Yes	−.75	−12.3	Yes	−.71
RMSSD	−0.1	No	−.03	0.4	No	.21
SDRR	0.5	Yes	.18	1.1	Yes	.53
LF	1.1	Yes	1.88	1.4	Yes	4.01
HF	−0.3	No	−.20	0.3	No	.37
HR	−0.2	No	−.02	3.9	Yes	.39