Meditation Practice and Long-Term Mortality in US Adults: A Doubly Robust Analysis of Pooled National Health Interview Survey Cohorts with a Trial-Informed Bayesian Subgroup Analysis
medRxiv September 20, 2026 Lu Shi, Yian Gu, Hafsa Imtiaz et al. preprint
ABSTRACT Introduction Trial evidence in older adults with hypertension suggests that meditation may lower mortality, but this association has not been tested in a nationally representative study with linked-mortality data. This study estimated meditation–mortality associations among US adults, examined variation by family income, and synthesized trial and survey evidence for the population...