Key result
Biofeedback therapies may offer similar efficacy to pharmacological therapies, vagal stimulation, and sympathetic ablation in managing the stress response associated with cardiac diseases.
Why the study?
Do biofeedback therapies provide similar efficacy to pharmacological and interventional therapies in managing the pathophysiological effects of psychosocial stress in heart disease?
Do biofeedback therapies provide similar efficacy to pharmacological and interventional therapies in managing the pathophysiological effects of psychosocial stress in heart disease?
Biofeedback therapies may offer an effective alternative or adjunct to pharmacological and interventional treatments for managing the pathophysiological effects of psychosocial stress in heart disease.
Biofeedback for emotional contributors to cardiac disease is hypothesis-generating; prospective trials needed before clinical adoption.
Emotions have been connected to the heart throughout the ages, yet they have been largely discounted as playing an important role in heart disease. There is mounting evidence that anxiety, anger, depression, and stress play significant contributing roles in cardiac diseases. These emotional states, coronary artery disease, and heart failure have physiology consistent with the ongoing stress response characterized by parasympathetic withdrawal and sympathetic activation. Pharmacological therapies, vagal stimulation, and sympathetic ablation have shown efficacy in these diseases. Similar results can be obtained by biofeedback therapies.
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Jan B. Newman (2013) conducted a review in Heart disease (coronary artery disease, heart failure). Biofeedback therapies vs. Pharmacological therapies, vagal stimulation, and sympathetic ablation was evaluated. Biofeedback therapies may offer similar efficacy to pharmacological therapies, vagal stimulation, and sympathetic ablation in managing the stress response associated with cardiac diseases.
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