Effect of 12 weeks of yoga training on the somatization, psychological symptoms, and stress-related biomarkers of healthy women

Table 1 Demographic data of the yoga-training group and the reference data of the control and long-term yoga groups

Characteristics	Yoga-training group	Control group	Long-term yoga group
Characteristics	(n = 24)	(n = 37)	(n = 38)
Age[Mean(SD)]	36.79 (6.43)	34.43 (8.16)	33.84 (7.33)
Range	(25–46)	(22–49)	(22–49)
Ethnicity (%)
Japanese	100 (n = 24)	100 (n = 37)	100 (n = 38)
Education (%)
Junior H.S. graduate	0.0 (n = 0)	0.0 (n = 0)	2.6 (n = 1)
H.S. graduate	37.5 (n = 9)	24.3 (n = 9)	23.7 (n = 9)
Junior college graduate	41.7 (n = 10)	37.8 (n = 14)	42.1 (n = 16)
College graduate	20.8 (n = 5)	29.7 (n = 11)	31.6 (n = 12)
Blank	0.0 (n = 0)	8.1 (n = 3)	0.0 (n = 0)

SD: standard deviation. H.S.: high school. The Kruskal-Wallis test was used to compare the age and education levels among the yoga training, control, and long-term yoga groups.

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