Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine

Evaluation of a mindfulness-based intervention program to decrease blood pressure in low-income African-American older adults.

Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine April 1, 2012 Priya Palta, G Page, Rachel L. Piferi et al.

Hypertension affects a large proportion of urban African-American older adults.While there have been great strides in drug development, many older adults do not have access to such medicines or do not take them. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR)has been shown to decrease blood pressure in some populations. This has not been tested in low-income, urban African-American older adults....