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Meditation and Cardiovascular Risk Reduction: A...

Authors

Glenn N. Levine, Richard A. Lange, C. Noel Bairey-Merz

Journal

Journal of the American Heart Association

September 30, 2017

Cardiovascular, IBS, Cardiac Surgery, Stress, Speilberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Meditation in General, Genetic Analysis, Addiction

Provides 37 pages of summaries from decades of research concerning how meditation affects heart related functioning (blood pressure, heart rate, etc.) Abstract Despite numerous advances in the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Novel and inexpensive interventions that can contribute to the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease are of interest. Numerous studies have reported on the […]

Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessor...

Authors

Jeffrey A. Dusek, PhD, Jane B. Sherwood, RN, BSN, Richard Friedman, PhD, Patricia Myers, BA, Charles F. Bethea, MD, Sidney Levitsky, MD, Peter C. Hill, MD, Manoj K. Jain, MD, Stephen L. Kopecky, MD, Paul S. Mueller, MD, Peter Lam, PhD, Herbert Benson, MD, Patricia L. Hibberd, MD, PhD

Journal

American Heart Journal

March 31, 2002

Cardiovascular, Prayer, Cardiac Surgery

Background: The effect of intercessory prayer (IP) on outcome in cardiac cases has been evaluated previously, but results are controversial. The goals of the Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP) are to evaluate the effects of receipt of additional study IP and awareness of receipt of additional study IP on outcomes in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery. STEP is not designed to determine whether God exists or whether God does or does not […]