Key result
Transcendental Meditation lowers blood pressure levels and reduces cardiovascular disease risk in hypertensive adults and pre-hypertensive adolescents.
Why the study?
Does Transcendental Meditation lower blood pressure in hypertensive adults and pre-hypertensive adolescents?
Does Transcendental Meditation lower blood pressure in hypertensive adults and pre-hypertensive adolescents?
Transcendental Meditation may be a beneficial non-pharmacological intervention for lowering blood pressure and preventing cardiovascular disease in youth and adults.
May support TM as adjunctive BP management; leaves open confirmation in prospective RCTs before practice change.
Acute and chronic environmental and psychosocial stress contributes to the pathogenesis and progression of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Stress reduction via Transcendental Meditation (TM)® has been shown to lower blood pressure (BP) levels and reduce CVD risk in adults and adolescents. This article reviews recent findings indicating a beneficial BP-lowering impact of TM in hypertensive adults at rest and in pre-hypertensive adolescents at rest, during acute laboratory stress and during normal daily activity. These findings have important implications for inclusion of TM in efforts to prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases and its clinical consequences.
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Barnes et al. (2006) conducted a review in Essential Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease. Transcendental Meditation (TM) was evaluated on Blood pressure levels and cardiovascular disease risk. Transcendental Meditation lowers blood pressure levels and reduces cardiovascular disease risk in hypertensive adults and pre-hypertensive adolescents.
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