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Meditation May Reduce Hardening Of Arteries |
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| Learning to relax and reduce stress through meditation, specifically Transcendental Meditation, may reduce arteriosclerosis - and risk of heart attack and stoke - according to findings published in the American Heart Association Journal Stroke.
This is the first controlled study to suggest that stress reduction by itself can reduce arteriosclerosis without changes in diet and exercise, according to a team of researchers from UCLA and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles and Maharishi University of Management (M.U.M.) College of Maharishi Vedic Medicine in Fairfield, lowa.
Arteriosclerosis is the hardening of the arteries accompanied by the build-up of fat deposit in the artillery walls. It leads to cardiovascular disease (CVD), the number one cause of death for all Americana. CVD is particularly lethal to African Americans, who are twice as likely to die from the illness as whites.
The study was supported by a grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and was conducted at Drew University in collaboration with the M.U.M. Centre for Natural Medicine and Prevention.
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Hypertensive
African Americans who were at risk for cardiovascular disease were
randomly assigned to the Transcendental Meditation program or to
a health education control group. Sixty men and women volunteers
completed pre-tests and post-tests over an average intervention
period of about seven months. The level of fatty substances deposited
on Participants' arterial walls, or carotid intima-media thickness
(IMT), was evaluated by ultrasound. IMT is |
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a widely
used surrogate measure of coronary arteriosclerosis and a predictor
of heart attack and stroke.
Subject practicing meditation showed
a decrease of 0.098 mm in IMT wall thickness, whereas participants
in the health education control group showed an increase of 0.054
mm. Based on two previous clinical observations, a 0.1mm decrease
in IMT would indicate an approximate 11 percent decrease in risk
of heart attack and a 7.7 percent to 15 percent reduction in risk
of stroke. |
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