Health-related benefits and adverse events associated with yoga classes among participants that are healthy, in poor health, or with chronic diseases

Table 1 Demographic characteristics of yoga class attendees

Group	H	PH	CD	Total	P value
Number	70	117	141	328
Number of females (%)	59 (84.3)	110 (94.0)	128 (91.4)	297 (90.5)	0.088^*
Age range	26 - 85	21 - 83	23 - 96	21 - 96
Mean age	54.7 ± 14.3	48.5 ± 14.8	58.7 ± 13.9	54.2 ± 15.0	< 0.001^#

Values are the mean ± standard deviation. The numbers in parenthesis represent the percentage of female participants
H healthy participants, PH participants in poor health, CD participants with chronic diseases
^*P value was analyzed with the Pearson Chi-Square test
^#P value was analyzed with the One-way ANOVA test

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