Nidhi Ram
Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana University, India
Title: Effect of a yoga program on glucose metabolism and blood lipid levels in adolescent girls with polycystic ovary syndrome
Biography
Biography: Nidhi Ram
Abstract
girls in South India and to conduct a RCT to study the effect of integrated yoga based life style program in comparison to the standard physical exercise program in adolescent girls with PCOS. Out of the 460 girls who were screened (aged 15-18 years), 42 (9.13%) girls satisfied Rotterdam’s criteria for PCOS, which increased to 50.46 (10.97%) when imputed data were included. For the interventional study, 90 adolescent girls (aged 15-18 years, BMI≥18.5) who satisfied the Rotterdam criterion for PCOS and had no prior experience of yoga were randomized into Yoga and Exercise group (1 hour/day for 12 weeks). All the variables were assessed on day 1 and day 95, keeping 5 days of detraining phase after concluding the intervention. Comparing the change score between the two groups, Mann-Whitney U test on difference score showed significant (p<0.05) difference between the two intervention groups with greater improvement in the yoga group as compared to the control group in all the variables of hormonal profile except FSH and Prolactin in all the variables of biochemical profile except High Density Lipoprotein (HDL) and also in all the psychological variables except state anxiety. Changes in BMI, waist circumference (WC), hip circumference (HC) and waist-hip ratio (W/H) were non-significantly different between the two groups (p>0.05). In conclusion, these results suggest that integrated approach of yoga therapy for 12 weeks was significantly better in restoration of normal endocrine and biochemical with improvement in psychological profile of PCOS than physical exercises.