Usefulness of the transcendental meditation program in the treatment of patients with coronary artery disease.
The American journal of cardiology April 15, 1996 J W Zamarra, R H Schneider, I Besseghini et al.
Twenty-one patients with documented coronary artery disease were tested at baseline by exercise tolerance testing, and assigned to either stress reduction using the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program or to a wait-list control, After 8 months, the TM group had a 14.7% increase in exercise tolerance, an 11.7% increase in maximal workload, an 18% delay in onset of ST-segment depression, and...