Relationships Among Stress, Blood Pressure, and Heart Rate Variability in Meditators
VCU Scholars Compass (Virginia Commonwealth University) 2006 Sangthong Terathongkum 1 citation
PROBLEM STATEMENT: Growing evidence indicates that psychological stress contributes to cardiovascular diseases through complex neuroendocrine mechanisms. Psychological stress leads to several physiological responses including increased heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP) as well as decreased heart rate variability (HRV) through alterations in the autonomic nervous system (ANS), specifically...