Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To systematically evaluate the effect of conventional medical treatment plus Qigong exercise on type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2 DM) in Chinese patients.METHODS: A literature search was conducted in Pub Med, Medline, Embase, China National Knowledge Infrastructure Database, Wanfang and China Science and Technology Journal Database until on January 2017. In this Meta-analysis, enrolled were the studies, including experimental group(with conventional medical treatment plus Qigong therapy) and control group(with conventional medicaltreatment plus diet control or other exercises).Then, the standardized mean differences(SMDs) of fasting blood-glucose(FBG), 2-hplasmaglucose(2 h PG), hemoglobin Alc(Hb Alc), triglyceride(TG),total cholesterol(TC), high-density lipoprotein(HDL) and low density lipoprotein(LDL), as well as their 95% confidence interval(CIs) were calculated to evaluate the effect of Qigong on patients with T2 DM by Rev Man 5.2 and Stata 11.0 software.RESULTS: Totally 834 cases of T2 DM from 11 studies were included in this review. The pooled SMDs with its 95% CIs of FBG, 2 h PG, Hb Alc, TG,TC, HDL and LDL were-0.70(-0.93,-0.47),-0.66(-1.11,-0.21),-0.73(-0.96,-0.50),-1.05(-1.67,-0.43),-0.42(-1.12, 0.28), 0.69(0.19, 1.19), and-0.26(-0.69, 0.18), respectively.The pooled data showed significantly difference between Qigong and the levels of FBG, 2 h PG, Hb A1 c,TG, and HDL in patients with T2 DM(P < 0.05).CONCLUSION: Combining with conventional medical treatment, Qigong exercise might have significant effect on T2 DM in Chinese patients.

Key words: Qigong, Diabetes mellitus, type 2, Blood glucose, Meta-analysis, Asian continental ancestry group