Trial reportAmerican journal of hypertension2005
A randomized controlled trial of stress reduction in African Americans treated for hypertension for over one year.
Trial report in American journal of hypertension, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00000537 (Stress Reduction & CVD Morbidity and Mortality in Blacks), which is not on this map. Cited by 49 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Stress Reduction & CVD Morbidity and Mortality in Blacks
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49 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 193 citations in OpenAlex.
- Spiritually Based Interventions for High Blood Pressure: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of religion and health · 2024Pooled it
- Meditation for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Community-Based Culturally Tailored Education Programs for Black Communities with Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, Hypertension, and Stroke: Systematic Review Findings.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2023Pooled it
- Systematic Review for the Medical Applications of Meditation in Randomized Controlled Trials.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Nonpharmacologic Interventions for Reducing Blood Pressure in Adults With Prehypertension to Established Hypertension.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2020Pooled it
- The impact of transcendental meditation on depressive symptoms and blood pressure in adults with cardiovascular disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Complementary therapies in medicine · 2019Pooled it
- Investigating the effect of transcendental meditation on blood pressure: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of human hypertension · 2015Pooled it
- Stress reduction programs in patients with elevated blood pressure: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Current hypertension reports · 2007Pooled it
- Benefits of mindfulness meditation in reducing blood pressure and stress in patients with arterial hypertension.Journal of human hypertension · 2019Trial
- Stress management in the workplace for employees with hypertension: a randomized controlled trial.Translational behavioral medicine · 2018Trial
- A randomized controlled longitudinal naturalistic trial testing the effects of automatic self transcending meditation on heart rate variability in late life depression: study protocol.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2014Trial
- A Chinese Chan-based mind-body intervention improves psychological well-being and physical health of community-dwelling elderly: a pilot study.Clinical interventions in aging · 2014Trial
- Comprehensive Approach to Lower Blood Pressure (CALM-BP): a randomized controlled trial of a multifactorial lifestyle intervention.Journal of human hypertension · 2013Trial
- Stress reduction in the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease: randomized, controlled trial of transcendental meditation and health education in Blacks.Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes · 2012Trial
- A randomized trial to improve patient-centered care and hypertension control in underserved primary care patients.Journal of general internal medicine · 2011Trial
- Effect of meditation on endothelial function in Black Americans with metabolic syndrome: a randomized trial.Psychosomatic medicineTrial
- Associations Among Minority Stress, Allostatic Load, and Drug and Alcohol Use in Sexual Minorities: Protocol for the Queer Health Study-a Longitudinal Feasibility Evaluation.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Stress Reduction to Decrease Hypertension for Black Women: A Scoping Review of Trials and Interventions.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2022Article
- Randomized controlled trial of stress reduction with meditation and health education in black men and women with high normal and normal blood pressure.American journal of preventive cardiology · 2021Article
- The Effect of Exercise on the Older Adult's Blood Pressure Suffering Hypertension: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on Clinical Trial Studies.International journal of hypertension · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundPsychosocial stress has been implicated in the disproportionately higher rates of hypertension among African Americans. This randomized controlled trial compared the effects of two stress reduction techniques and a health education control program on hypertension during a period of 1 year in African-American men and women (N = 150, mean age 49 +/- 10 years, mean blood pressure (BP) = 142/95 mm Hg) at an urban community health center.
methodsInterventions included 20 min twice a day of Transcendental Meditation (TM) or progressive muscle relaxation (PMR), or participation in conventional health education (HE) classes. All subjects continued usual medical care. Outcomes assessed were systolic BP and diastolic BP at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after treatment, analyzed by repeated measures ANCOVA.
resultsThe TM group showed decreases in systolic BP/diastolic BP of -3.1/-5.7 mm Hg compared to -0.5/-2.9 mm Hg for PMR or HE, (P = .12 to .17 for systolic BP, P = .01 for diastolic BP). In addition the TM group demonstrated reduced use of antihypertensive medication relative to increases for PMR (P = .001) and HE (P = .09) groups. Group analysis by gender showed that women practicing TM had decreased BP (-7.3/-6.9 mm Hg) significantly more than women practicing PMR (0.7/-2.7 mm Hg) or HE (-.07/-3.0 mm Hg) (P .01 to .03). The change in men praticing TM (0.2 /-4.7 mm Hg) was greater than men practicing HE (-0.9/-2.0 mm Hg) for diastolic BP only (P = .09,) and not different from PMR men (-2.0/-3.1).
conclusionsA selected stress reduction approach, the Transcendental Meditation program, may be useful as an adjunct in the long-term treatment of hypertension in African Americans.
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