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Impact of a Residential Yoga and Naturopathy-based Lifestyle Modification on Cardio-Metabolic Risk Factors in Patients with Hypertension: A Retrospective Study.

Key takeaways

Researchers looked back at records of people with high blood pressure who stayed at a live-in center doing yoga and naturopathy, and compared heart and metabolic numbers before and after. Looking back at charts with no comparison group shows a link, not proof of cause: the people who choose a residential program differ from those who do not. The abstract gives no number of patients, no length of stay, and no size of effect. It also measured blood pressure and metabolic risk, not kidney filtering rate (eGFR) or protein in the urine, so it says nothing directly about kidneys.

Who did this work

Mooventhan A (Department of Research; Government Yoga and Naturopathy Medical College, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.) · Nivethitha L (Department of Naturopathy; Government Yoga and Naturopathy Medical College, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.) · Kahlilsubramanian K (Department of Research; Government Yoga and Naturopathy Medical College, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.) · Manavalan N (Department of Naturopathy; Government Yoga and Naturopathy Medical College, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.)

Source

Paper · Europe PMC, CKD mind-body · 2026-09-01
https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42726609