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ArticleCurrent hypertension reviews2006

Clinical and Pre-clinical Applications of the Transcendental Meditation Program in the Prevention and Treatment of Essential Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease in Youth and Adults.

Vernon A Barnes, David W Orme-Johnson

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Article in Current hypertension reviews, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Meditation: Evidence Map of Systematic Reviews.Frontiers in public health · 2021
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  5. Impact of transcendental meditation on left ventricular mass in african american adolescents.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2012
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Vernon A BarnesGeorgia Institute for Prevention of Human Diseases and Accidents, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Georgia Augusta, Georgia 30912, USA.
David W Orme-Johnson
Augusta University · US

Funding

Motivating HIV Risk-ReductionR01MH062976 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI ROFFMAN, ROGER ALAN · 2002 to 2005
$1.9M
STRESS REDUCTION--PREVENTION OF HIGH BP IN BLACK YOUTHR01HL062976 · NHLBI · MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA (MCG) · PI TREIBER, FRANK A · 1999 to 2002
$1.2M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL062976NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH062976
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute and chronic environmental and psychosocial stress contributes to the pathogenesis and progression of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Stress reduction via Transcendental Meditation (TM)® has been shown to lower blood pressure (BP) levels and reduce CVD risk in adults and adolescents. This article reviews recent findings indicating a beneficial BP-lowering impact of TM in hypertensive adults at rest and in pre-hypertensive adolescents at rest, during acute laboratory stress and during normal daily activity. These findings have important implications for inclusion of TM in efforts to prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases and its clinical consequences.

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PMID22383899
PMCPMC3289096
OpenAlexW1980846394

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