The Effect of Dongeui Qigong for Prehypertension and Mild Essential Hypertension

Table 1

Demographic data of participants in each group.

	Qigong group	Control group	value
Age (years)	54.52 ± 6.96	52.93 ± 8.45	0.46
Sex^§ (males/females)	13/12	22/5	0.05
Temperature	36.76 ± 0.25	36.71 ± 0.24	0.46
Pulse	65.88 ± 6.04	70.23 ± 8.49	0.04
Amount of smoking	15.00 ± 8.66	10.33 ± 8.02	0.48
Treatment of hypertension
Yes	1	3	0.61
No	24	24	—
Blood pressure
Systolic	134.45 ± 10.41	130.47 ± 13.93	0.25
Diastolic	85.23 ± 6.43	85.41 ± 7.83	0.93
Hypertension stage
Prehypertension	15	15	0.97
Mild hypertension	10	12

Chi-square test. The other measures were analyzed using analysis of covariance adjusted for group and center.