Usefulness of the transcendental meditation program in the treatment of patients with coronary artery disease.
Twenty-one patients with documented coronary artery disease were tested at baseline by exercise tolerance testing, and assigned to either stress reduction using the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program or to a wait-list control, After 8 months, the TM group had a 14.7% increase in exercise tolerance, an 11.7% increase in maximal workload, an 18% delay in onset of ST-segment depression, and significant reductions in rate-pressure product at 3 and 6 minutes, and at maximal exercise compared with the control group.
Zamarra
J W
JW
The Department of Medicine, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA.
Schneider
R H
RH
Besseghini
I
I
Robinson
D K
DK
Salerno
J W
JW
D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000628:therapy; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D005080:Exercise Test; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D019122:Meditation; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011446:Prospective Studies; D016037:Single-Blind Method; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D016896:Treatment Outcome