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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE

Effects of Mongolian Mind-Body Interactive Therapy on blood pressure control among people with essential hypertension during the COVID-19 pandemic: An exploratory online intervention study

Jun Fang1,2* ,  Wen-Feng Bao1 ,  Bao-Jun De2 ,  Chen-Lu Wang3 ,  Jian-Ping Liu3 ,  Nagongbilige He1,2*
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1 Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Inner Mongolia Traditional Chinese & Mongolian Medical Research Institute, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China
2 Department of Mongolian Medicine Mind-Body Medicine, Inner Mongolia Ajitai Mongolian Hospital, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
3 Centre for Evidence-based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
JCBP, 025140027 https://doi.org/10.36922/JCBP025140027
Received: 3 April 2025 | Revised: 15 October 2025 | Accepted: 4 December 2025 | Published online: 4 February 2026
© 2026 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
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Abstract

Mongolian Mind-Body Interactive Therapy (MMBIT) is based on the unified theory of Mongolian medicine and the knowledge and methods of modern medical psychology. This study investigated the effect of online MMBIT on the blood pressure of patients with essential hypertension (EH). During the COVID-19 pandemic, an online questionnaire was conducted among patients with EH who received MMBIT. A total of 525 patients participated in the study, of whom 149 were male and 376 were female; 319 were <60 years old and 206 were ≥60 years old. Furthermore, 394 patients had taken oral antihypertensive drugs in the past month, and 131 had not. Among the 525 patients with complete blood pressure data, systolic blood pressure decreased from 135 mmHg (interquartile range: 21.0) pre-MMBIT to 132 (22.5) mmHg post-MMBIT (p=0.001), while diastolic blood pressure decreased from 83 (16) mmHg pre-MMBIT to 82 (15) mmHg post-MMBIT (p=0.008). The proportions of participants meeting the target blood pressure were 36.952% pre-MMBIT and 42.476% post-MMBIT (χ2 = 0.750; p=0.386). Using the chi-square test, no significant difference in blood pressure reduction was observed between patients who did and did not receive medication; however, the rate of achieving target blood pressure after MMBIT treatment differed significantly across patient educational levels. Overall, MMBIT was associated with modest reductions in blood pressure among patients with EH.

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Keywords
Mongolian Mind-Body Interactive Therapy
Essential hypertension
Survey questionnaire
Systolic blood pressure
Diastolic blood pressure
Funding
This work was funded by the Science Foundation for Excellent Young Scholars of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (No. 2025YQ040), the Key Research and Development Program of Ordos (No. YF20250273), and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Health and Traditional Chinese (Mongolian) Medicine Science and Technology Program Project (No.ZMY-2024209).
Conflict of interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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