Trials in USSR

There were medical trials in former USSR where the method was discovered.
Very important and significant trials were conducted in Institute of Pulmonology, Leningrad in 1968 with success rates of 95% and in Sechenov’s Medical Institute, Moscow in 1981 with 83% of success rates.

The Soviet Health Ministry officially endorsed the Buteyko breathing method in 1985.

Asthma trial at Mater Hospital in Brisbane (Australia), 1995.

The first clinical trial outside the former Soviet Union (Russia, Ukraine) was conducted at Mater Hospital in Brisbane (Australia), 1995.
This study recorded the changes of symptoms, medication, quality of life in 39 asthmatics. They were split into two groups – the Buteyko group and the Control group.

The Buteyko group achieved:
96% reduction of reliever medications (bronchodilators) by 3 month
49% reduction of preventive medications (steroids) by 3 month
reduction in symptoms and attacks
improvement in quality of life

The control group:
showed no significant improvement by using conventional techniques.

The results of trial was published in the Medical Journal of Australia in December 1998 “Buteyko breathing technique in asthma: a blinded randomized controlled trial” MJA 1998; Volume 169 (11): 575-578
The full text of the trial can be found at:
https://www.mja.com.au/journal/1998/169/11/buteyko-breathing-techniques-asthma-blinded-randomised-controlled-trial

There were 6 more asthma’s trials conducted in different countries that had confirmed Buteyko findings:

Australia
1999, Alfred Hospital, Prahan
2006, University of Sydney, New South Wales

New Zealand
2003, Gisborne Hospital, Gisborne,

United Kingdom
2003, Division of Respiratory Medicine, City Hospital, Nottingham
2003, Glasgow

Canada
2008, Calgary COPD and Asthma Program, University of Calgary, Alberta