According to a new study, a combination of yoga and aerobic exercise may benefit people with heart disease. The study included 750 obese Indian heart disease patients with type 2 diabetes. They were divided into three groups. A group of 225 patients did aerobic exercise, a group of 240 did yoga, and the remaining 285 did both.

All three groups saw improvements in their heart disease risk factors after participating in three sessions of the activities lasting six months each. Blood pressure went down similarly for the aerobic exercise-only and yoga-only groups. These groups also had similar improvements in total cholesterol, triglycerides and bad LDL cholesterol. Weight and waist circumference also went down similarly for both of these groups, the study said.