Tai Chi for Chronic Illness Management: Synthesizing Current Evidence from Meta-Analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials

Author: Liye Zou¹, Tao Xiao², Chao Cao³, Lee Smith⁴, Kellie Imm⁵, Igor Grabovac⁶, Thomas Waldhoer⁷, Yin Zhang⁸, Albert Yeung⁹, Jacopo Demurtas¹⁰, Nicola Veronese¹¹, Ulf Ekelund¹², Yikyung Park¹³, Lin Yang¹⁴
Affiliation:
¹ Exercise and Mental Health Laboratory; Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Affective and Social Cognitive Science, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.
² College of Mathematics and Statistics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.
³ Program in Physical Therapy and Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA.
⁴ The Cambridge Centre for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
⁵ Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
⁶ Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
⁷ Department of Epidemiology, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
⁸ Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁹ Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
¹⁰ Primary Care Department, LHT South-East Tuscany, Grosseto, Italy.
¹¹ National Research Council, Neuroscience Institute, Aging Branch, Padua, Italy.
¹² Department of Sport Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway; Department of Chronic Diseases and Ageing, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.
¹³ Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA; Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Research, CancerControl Alberta, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, AB, Canada; Departments of Oncology and Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. Electronic address: lin.yang@ahs.ca.
Conference/Journal: Am J Med
Date published: 2020 Sep 15
Other: Special Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2020.08.015. , Word Count: 181