Trial reportJournal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.)2021
Relaxing music reduces blood pressure and heart rate among pre-hypertensive young adults: A randomized control trial.
Trial report in Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06970886 (Effects of Rhythm-Based Music on Anxiety, Glucose, and Cortisol in Pregnancies With Gestational Diabetes), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Effects of Rhythm-Based Music on Anxiety, Glucose, and Cortisol in Pregnancies With Gestational Diabetes
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Adjuvant music therapy for patients with hypertension: a meta-analysis and systematic review.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2023Pooled it
- Effect of interventions for stress management on blood pressure changes in healthy adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of human hypertension · 2026Review
- Autonomic entrainment to expressive musical phrase structures.European heart journal. Imaging methods and practice · 2026Article
- Music Listening in Medicine and Healthcare: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Types and influencing factors of psychological health among freshmen in Chinese art vocational colleges: a latent profile analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Psychophysiological effects of low-frequency sound mediated by room size, room shape, and stimulus duration.Frontiers in cognition · 2026Article
- Autonomic entrainment to music structure in Verdi opera.European heart journal. Imaging methods and practice · 2026Article
- Modulating satiety with neuro-music: a frequency-specific acoustic approach to appetite control.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Mozart for the brain - a pilot study on physiological effects of auditive stimulation in patients after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.IBRO neuroscience reports · 2025Article
- High blood pressure inhibits cardiovascular responsiveness to expressive classical music.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of stress management and relaxation interventions for management of hypertension and prehypertension: systematic review and network meta-analysis.BMJ medicine · 2025Article
- Proposed Mechanism of Action for Three Music-Based Interventions for Behavioral and Psychologic Symptoms of Dementia.Music therapy perspectives · 2025Article
- Banging the drum: evolutionary and cultural origins of music and its implications for psychiatry.BJPsych bulletin · 2023Article
- Channeling of Brain Towards Engaging Sensorimotor Tasks for Inducing Hedonic Pleasure to Alleviate Blood Pressure in Hypertension.Annals of neurosciences · 2023Article
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- Perception of Therapeutic Music in Community Settings.Global advances in integrative medicine and healthArticle
- The Effect of Music Therapy on the Sleep Quality of Patients with Heart Failure: The Miracle of Nature Music.Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery researchArticle
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7 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Prevalence of pre-hypertension is higher among young adults and may increase the risk for hypertension and cardiovascular morbidity. Music therapy has been investigated to reduce the blood pressure in the hypertensive population; however, its efficacy on blood pressure in pre-hypertensive young adults is not known. Thirty pre-hypertensive (systolic blood pressure [SBP] = 120-139 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure [DBP] = 80-89 mmHg) young adults were recruited and randomly assigned into two groups. Music group (N = 15) received music therapy by passive listening to music for 30 minutes/day, 5 days/week for 4 weeks, along with Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating plan (a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, low-fat dairy or unsaturated fat) and limit the daily sodium intake less than 100 mmol/day. The control group (N = 15) practiced only DASH eating plan and sodium restriction. The SBP, DBP, and heart rate (HR) were measured before and after 4 weeks of intervention. There was a significant reduction in SBP (8.73 mmHg, p < .001) and HR (6.42 beats/minute, p = .002); however, the reduction in DBP (1.44 mmHg, p = .101) was not statistically significant in the music group. Control group did not exhibit any significant reduction in SBP (0.21 mmHg, p < .836), DBP (0.81 mmHg, p < .395) and HR (0.09 beats/minute, p < .935). In conclusion, music therapy reduced significantly SBP and HR suggesting that it could be a promising tool to prevent the progression of pre-hypertension toward hypertension among young adults.
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