Abstract: . . .  peer-reviewed article was published immediately upon acceptance. It can be downloaded, printed and distributed freely for any purposes (see copyright notice below). Articles in BMC journals are listed in PubMed and archived at PubMed Central. For information about publishing your research in BMC journals or any BioMed Central journal, go to http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/authors/ BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine © 2006 Chaya et al. , licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Page 2 . . .
. . .  article was published immediately upon acceptance. It can be downloaded, printed and distributed freely for any purposes (see copyright notice below). Articles in BMC journals are listed in PubMed and archived at PubMed Central. For information about publishing your research in BMC journals or any BioMed Central journal, go to http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/authors/ BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine © 2006 Chaya et al. , licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Page 2 1 The . . .
. . .  weight Women Men Yoga (n=24) Non Yoga (n=15) Yoga (n=31) Non Yoga (n=34) BMR (Kcal/d) 1061.0± 201.9 ‡, ** 1275.1± 226.2 1303.3± 210.9 ‡, ** 1484.3± 237.2 BMR ¶ 19.1± 3.5 ‡, ** 23.5± 5.2 21.8± 3.3 ‡, * 23.7± 4.4 Predicted BMR (Kcal/d) 1249.7± 98.5 1244.9± 82.1 1495.5± 131.5 1501.7± 98.7 Page 19 18 Table 4.Gender wise comparisons of respiratory andcardiac parameters of yoga andnonyoga group. Women Men Yoga ( n=24) Non Yoga ( n=15) Yoga (n=31) Non Yoga (n=34) VE [l/min] 5.5± 1.2 6.1± 1.1 6.1± 1.0** 7.2± 1.3 BF [1/min] 14.8± 3.7** 17.7± 2.1 12.6± 3.5** 15.0 ± 3.2 VO 2 [ml/min] 155.4± 27.6** 185.4± 32.7 192.4± 28.2** 212.9± 33.6 VCO 2 [ml/min] 142.2± 26.2* 160.3± 26.6 169.7± 27.7** 194.0± 31.7 RQ 0.91± 0.07* 0.87± 0.06 0.88± 0.05* 0.91± 0.06 HR [beats/min] . . .
. . .  published immediately upon acceptance. It can be downloaded, printed and distributed freely for any purposes (see copyright notice below). Articles in BMC journals are listed in PubMed and archived at PubMed Central. For information about publishing your research in BMC journals or any BioMed Central journal, go to http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/authors/ BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine © 2006 Chaya et al. , licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Page 2 1 The effect of long term . . .
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