Systematic Review of Chinese Traditional Exercise Baduanjin Modulating the Blood Lipid Metabolism

Table 2

The pooled results of Baduanjin exercise for plasma HDL-C level in healthy participants or clinical patients.

Participants	Number of comparisons	/T	/C	MD (95% CI); (mmol/L)	P value	(%)	P heterogeneity
Baduanjin + routine treatment versus routine treatment
Clinical patients	5	136	136	0.04 (−0.1, 0.18)		73
Baduanjin versus no treatment
Clinical patients	2	38	35	0.22 (−0.11, 0.55)		92
Healthy participants	9	140	144	0.13 (0.06, 0.21)		56
Baduanjin versus other exercises
Healthy participants	2	49	47	−0.09 (−0.25, 0.06)		19
Baduanjin + routine versus other exercises + routine treatment
Clinical patients	3	114	106	0.00 (−0.06, 0.07)		0

T: The treatment group, C: The control group.