Impact of Transcendental Meditation® on cardiovascular function at rest and during acute stress in adolescents with high normal blood pressure

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• 作者：Barnes ; Vernon A. ; Treiber ; Frank A. ; Davis ; Harry
• 关键词：Transcendental Meditation ; Blood pressure ; Stress response ; Adolescents ; Cardiovascular reactivity
• 刊名：Journal of Psychosomatic Research
• 出版年：2001
• 出版时间：October, 2001
• 年：2001
• 卷：51
• 期：4
• 页码：597-605
• 全文大小：260 K

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Objective: This study examined the impact of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program on cardiovascular (CV) reactivity in adolescents with high normal BP. Method: Thirty-five adolescents [34 African Americans (AAs), 1 Caucasian American (CA); ages 15–18 years] with resting systolic blood pressure (SBP) between the 85th and 95th percentile for their age and gender on three consecutive occasions, were randomly assigned to either TM (n