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

Table 4

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

Group	Numbers of comparisons	/T	/C	MD (95% CI); (mmol/L)	P value	(%)	P heterogeneity
Baduanjin + routine treatment versus routine treatment
Clinical patients	3	88	88	0.14 (−0.03, 0.31)		60
Baduanjin versus no treatment
Clinical patients	2	38	35	−0.38 (−0.63, −0.13)		0
Healthy participants	9	140	144	−0.35 (−0.54, −0.17)		47
Baduanjin versus other exercises
Healthy participants	2	49	47	0.08 (−0.07, 0.23)		74
Baduanjin + routine treatment versus other exercises + routine treatment
Clinical patients	3	114	106	0.08 (−0.43, 0.58)		88

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