Clinical cardiology

The effect of a six-week program of yoga and meditation on brachial artery reactivity: do psychosocial interventions affect vascular tone?

Clinical cardiology September 1, 2006 Satish Sivasankaran, Suzanne Pollard-Quintner, Rajesh Sachdeva et al.

Background: Chronic stress is estimated to increase the risk of cardiovascular (CV) events two-fold. Although stress reduction has been linked to a reduction in CV events, little is known regarding its exact mechanism of benefit. Hypothesis: Yoga and meditation will improve parameters of endothelial function. Methods: We examined the effects of yoga and meditation on hemodynamic and laboratory...