Mind-Body Therapies for Essential Hypertension: Network Meta-Analysis Results

A network meta-analysis of 15 randomized controlled trials involving 949 participants, conducted by Haojun Cui and published on figshare in 2026. The data quantitatively compares and ranks 11 distinct mind-body therapy interventions for their effects on systolic and diastolic blood pressure in patients with essential hypertension.

Use Cases

• Ranking mind-body therapy effectiveness for blood pressure reduction based on reported SUCRA values.
• Comparing intervention effect sizes for systolic and diastolic blood pressure as described in the meta-analysis.
• Assessing the methodological quality of included studies based on the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool application.
• Evaluating network consistency and robustness of findings from the frequentist analysis.

Strengths

• Includes data from 15 randomized controlled trials, a standard for clinical evidence.
• Analyzes 11 distinct mind-body therapy interventions across 18 intervention arms.
• Results are based on a frequentist network meta-analysis performed with STATA 18.0.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The analysis is based on a limited number of studies (15) with modest sample sizes (949 participants), as noted in the conclusion.

Provenance

Source

Haojun Cui via figshare.

Collection Method

Data extracted from a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Time Range

Literature search covered from database inception to March 2, 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03 17 13:06:36.

Geography

Studies were sourced from international (PubMed, Embase, Cochrane, Web of Science) and Chinese (CBM, CNKI, Wanfang, VIP) databases, though Chinese literature did not meet inclusion criteria.