The effect of a six-week program of yoga and meditation on brachial artery reactivity: Do psychosocial interventions affect vascular tone?

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 393-398

  Sivasankaran, Satish ^b   Pollard Quintner, Suzanne ^b   Sachdeva, Rajesh ^b   Pugeda, Jaime ^b   Hoq, Sheik M ^b   Zarich, Stuart W ^a  

^a BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Endothelial function; Stress Management; Yoga

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; BODY MASS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MEDITATION; PILOT STUDY; PULSE RATE; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASODILATATION; YOGA;

EID: 33748469888     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960290905     Document Type: Article

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