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...
JMIR Research Protocols
June 18, 2024
Mohammad Hooshmand Zaferanieh, Lu Shi, Meenu Jindal et al.
1 citation
Depression poses a major threat to public health with an increasing prevalence in the United States. Mindfulness-based interventions, such as mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), are effective methods for managing depression symptoms and may help fortify existing efforts to address the current disease burden. The in-person group format of MBCT, however, incurs barriers to care such as...
Journal of Medical Internet Research
March 8, 2024
Yu Gao, Lu Shi, Ning Fu et al.
11 citations
College athletes are a group often affected by anxiety. Few interventional studies have been conducted to address the anxiety issues in this population. We conducted a mobile-delivered mindfulness intervention among college athletes to study its feasibility and efficacy in lowering their anxiety level and improving their mindfulness (measured by the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire [FFMQ])....
Mindfulness
July 1, 2023
Snehal Lopes, Lu Shi, Xi Pan et al.
5 citations
We aimed to assess the association between meditation practice and cognitive function over time among middle-aged and older adults. We included Health and Retirement Study (HRS) participants assessed for meditation practice in the year 2000 as part of the HRS alternative medicine module (n = 1,160) and were followed up for outcomes over 2000-2016 period. We examined the association between...
Mindfulness
2022
Lingling Zhang, Snehal Lopes, Tara Lavelle et al.
This study includes a systematic review of cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) and cost-benefit analyses (CBAs) of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs). A literature search was conducted using PubMed, Web of Science, JSTOR, and CINAHL for studies published between January 1985 and September 2021, including an original cost-related evaluation of an MBI. A qualitative assessment of bias was...
Complementary Therapies in Medicine
June 1, 2019
Lu Shi, Ralph S Welsh, Snehal Lopes et al.
Mindful walking is a meditation practice that combines physical activity and mindfulness practice. Some mindful walking interventions expect four weeks of attendance (as compared with the traditional 8-week models of mindfulness-based interventions, or MBIs), a practice that could make MBIs more accessible to working-age adults. This study examined whether a 4-week mindful walking intervention...
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...
Journal of Hypertension
April 2017
Lu Shi, Donglan Zhang, Liang Wang et al.
We meta-analyzed the effect of meditation on blood pressure (BP), including both transcendental meditation and non-transcendental meditation interventions. We identified randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that examined the BP responses to meditation interventions through a systematic literature search of the PubMed, ABI/INFORM, MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, and CINAHL databases (from January 1980...
Trials
April 22, 2016
Jiayan Huang, Lu Shi
BackgroundAfter treatment completion, breast cancer (BC) survivors frequently experience residual symptoms of pain, fatigue, high levels of psychological stress, anxiety, depression, fear of recurrence, and metastasis. Post-treatment stress, in particular, can adversely affect health-related quality of life, which, in turn, induces onset or recurrence of chronic diseases. Effective...
Medicines
October 16, 2015
Matthew L. Tedder, Lu Shi, Mei Si et al.
8 citations
Background: With the increasing availability of Smartphones and wearable tracking devices, it is now feasible and affordable to apply such mobile devices to delivering mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and intermittent fasting (IF) to lower blood pressure, as traditional MBSR and IF incur the burden of commuting to the intervention sites for the patients. Our study will develop and...