Modeling the Impact of Transcendental Meditation on Stroke Incidence and Mortality.
Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association March 1, 2019 Raj Anil Ambavane, Amin Khademi, Donglan Zhang et al.
Meditation has shown promise in clinical trials in reducing systolic blood pressure, one of the main risk factors for stroke. We aim to estimate the potential benefits of popularizing meditation on stroke incidence and mortality in the United States (U.S.). We developed a dynamic population-based microsimulation model to simulate the disease progression of each individual and compute disease...