The Basic Cardiovascular Responses to Postural Changes, Exercise, and Cold Pressor Test: Do They Vary in Accordance with the Dual Constitutional Types of Ayurveda?

Table 5

The relationship between Prakriti groups and cardiac efficiency index (CEI).

Prakriti	PR (per minute) recorded at different time intervals after			CEI (in %)
	completing the Harvard step test for 5 minutes
	PR between 1–1.5 minutes (Mean ± SD)	PR between 2–2.5 minutes (Mean ± SD)	PR between 3–3.5 minutes (Mean ± SD)	Cardiac efficiency index (Mean ± SD)
VP (n = 19)	98.00 ± 6.110	92.42 ± 6.203	88.47 ± 6.168	107.77 ± 7.425
PK (n = 50)	100.06 ± 8.052	93.36 ± 7.105	87.36 ± 3.766	106.50 ± 8.443
VK (n = 21)	98.81 ± 6.493	93.14 ± 5.121	89.05 ± 4.318	106.84 ± 5.672
Intergroup comparison One-way ANOVA	P = .545	P = .867	P = .818	P = .830