Can Yoga decrease the occurrence of high blood pressure in pregnancy in certain women prone for it?
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Preeclampsia
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2011/10/002064
- Lead Sponsor
- K Manikandan
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 300
Inclusion Criteria
Pregnant women who present at gestational age less than 16 weeks and having any of the following high risk attributes:
1. Chronic hypertension: [defined as blood pressure equal to or more than 140/90 detected prepregnancy or before 20 weeks of gestation]
2. Gestational hypertension/Preeclampsia/Eclampsia in any previous pregnancy
3. History of abruption or unexplained IUGR in any previous pregnancy
4.First trimester uterine artery PI more than the 90th centile [using the Fetal Medicine Foundation calculator]
Exclusion Criteria
1. Patients with musculoskeletal disorders or defects preventing satisfactory performance of yoga techniques
2. Women with cardiac/chronic pulmonary disease preventing satisfactory performance of yoga techniques
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Occurrence of Gestational Hypertension/PreeclampsiaTimepoint: discharge from hospital after delivery
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method fetal growth restrictionTimepoint: nil;Gestational LengthTimepoint: delivery;Maternal MortalityTimepoint: hospital stay;Neonatal Intensive Care Unit admissionTimepoint: Discharge from hospital after delivery;Neonatal MortalityTimepoint: Discharge from hospital after delivery;Onset of Gestational Hypertension-PreeclampsiaTimepoint: discharge from hospital after delivery;Severity of PreeclampsiaTimepoint: discharge from hospital after delivery