Spirituality and autonomic cardiac control

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 198-208

  Berntson, Gary G ^a   Norman, Greg J ^a   Hawkley, Louise C ^b   Cacioppo, John T ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic balance; Cardiac control; Heart rate variability; Myocardial infarction; Parasympathetic pre ejection period; Spirituality; Sympathetic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HEART; HEART AUTOMATICITY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION;

AGED; AGING; AROUSAL; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 42249111872     PISSN: 08836612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12160-008-9027-x     Document Type: Article

References (89)

1. Thom T, ed. Morbidity and Mortality: 2004 Chart Book on Cardiovascular, Lung and Blood Diseases. Bethesda: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; 2004.
2. Cannon WB. "Voodoo" death. Am Anthropol. 1942; 44: 169-181.
3. Wittstein IS. The broken heart syndrome. Clevel Clin J Med. 1996; 74(Suppl 1): S17-S22.
4. Samuels MA. "Voodoo" death revisited: the modern lessons of neuroscariology. Clevel Clin J Med. 2007; 74(Suppl 1): S8-S16.
5. Berntson GG, Cacioppo JT, Quigley KS. Autonomic determinism: the modes of autonomic control, the doctrine of autonomic space, and the laws of autonomic constraint. Psychol Rev. 1991; 98: 459-487.
6. Berntson GG, Cacioppo JT. Integrative physiology: homeostasis, allostasis and the orchestration of systemic physiology. In: Cacioppo JT, Tassinary LG, Berntson GG, eds. Handbook of Psychophysiology. 3rd ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press; 2007: 433-452.
7. Maier SF, Amat J, Baratta MV, Paul E, Watkins LR. Behavioral control, the medial prefrontal cortex, and resilience. Dialogues Clin Neurosci. 2006; 8(4): 397-406.
8. Freedman O, Orenstein S, Boston P, et al. Spirituality, religion, and health: a critical appraisal of the Larson reports. Ann R Coll Phys Surg Can. 2002; 35: 90-93.
9. Koenig HG. Religion and medicine IV: religion, physical health, and clinical implications. Int J Psychiatry Med. 2001; 31: 321-336.
10. Levin JS, Chatters LM. Religion, health, and psychological well-being in older adults: findings from three national surveys. J Aging Health. 1998; 10: 504-531.
11. Matthews DA, McCullough ME, Larson DB, et al. Religious commitment and health status: a review of the research and implications for family medicine. Arch Fam Med. 1998; 7: 118-124.
12. Miller WR, Thoresen CE. Spirituality, religion, and health. An emerging research field. Am Psychol. 2003; 58: 24-35.
13. Seeman TE, Dubin LF, Seeman M. Religiosity/spirituality and health. A critical review of the evidence for biological pathways. Am Psychol. 2003; 58: 53-63.
14. Tartaro J, Luecken LJ, Gunn HE. Exploring heart and soul: effects of religiosity/spirituality and gender on blood pressure and cortisol stress responses. J Health Psychol. 2005; 10: 753-766.
15. Weaver AJ, Koenig HG. Religion, spirituality, and their relevance to medicine: an update. Am Fam Phys. 2006; 73: 1336-1337.
16. Cacioppo JT, Hawkley LC, Rickett EM, Masi CM. Sociality, spirituality, and meaning-making: Chicago health, aging, and social relations study (CHASRS). Rev Gen Psychol. 2005; 9: 143-155.
17. King DE, Mainous AG 3rd, Steyer TE, Pearson W. The relationship between attendance at religious services and cardiovascular inflammatory markers. Int J Psychiatry Med. 2001; 31: 415-425.
18. Powell LH, Shahabi L, Thoresen CE. Religion and spirituality: linkages to physical health. Am Psychol. 2003; 58: 36-52.
19. Whooley MA, Boyd AL, Gardin JM, Williams DR. Religious involvement and cigarette smoking in young adults: the CARDIA (Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults) study. Arch Intern Med. 2002; 162: 1604-1610.
20. Bernardi L, Sleight P, Bandinelli G, et al. Effect of rosary prayer and yoga mantras on autonomic cardiovascular rhythms: comparative study. Br Med J. 2001; 323: 1446-1449.
21. Goldbourt U, Yaari S, Medalie JH. Factors predictive of long-term coronary heart disease mortality among 10,059 male Israeli civil servants and municipal employees. Cardiology. 1993; 82: 100-121.
22. Hummer RA, Rogers RG, Nam CB, Ellison CG. Religious involvement and U.S. adult mortality. Demography. 1999; 36: 273-285.
23. Oman D, Kurata JH, Strawbridge WJ, Cohen RD. Religious attendance and cause of death over 31 years. Int J Psychiatry Med. 2002; 32: 69-89.
24. Hill PC, Pargament KI. Advances in the conceptualization and measurement of religion and spirituality: implications for physical and mental health research. Am Psychol. 2003; 58: 64-74.
25. Krause N, Ellison CG, Wulff KM. Church-based support, negative interaction, and well-being. J Sci Study Relig. 1993; 37: 725-741.
26. Pargament KI. The Psychology of Religion and Coping: Theory, Research, Practice. New York: Guilford; 1997.
27. Payne IR, Bergin AE, Bielema KA, Jenkins PH. Review of religion and mental health: prevention and the enhancement of psychosocial functioning. Prev Hum Serv. 1991; 2: 11-40.
28. Kass JD, Friedman R, Lesserman J, Zuttermeister P, Benson H. Health outcomes and a new index of spiritual experiences. J Sci Study Relig. 1991; 30: 203-211.
29. Boomsma DI, Willemsen G, Hawkley LC, Cacioppo JT. Genetic and environmental contributions to loneliness in adults: The Netherlands Twin Register Study. Behav Genet. 2005; 35: 745-752.
30. Cacioppo JT, Hawkley LC, Ernst JM, et al. Loneliness within a nomological net: an evolutionary perspective. J Res Pers. 2006; 40: 1054-1085.
31. Epley N, Waytz A, Cacioppo JT. On seeing human: a three-factor theory of anthropomorphism. Psychol Rev. 2007; 114: 864-886.
32. Horsten M, Ericson M, Perski A, Wamala SP, Schenck-Gustafsson K, Orth-Gomér K. Psychosocial factors and heart rate variability in healthy women. Psychosom Med. 1999; 61: 49-57.
33. House JS, Landis KR, Umberson D. Social relationships and health. Science. 1988; 24: 540-545.
34. Pollner M. Divine relations, social relations, and well-being. J Health Soc Behav. 1989; 30: 92-104.
35. Seeman TE. Health promoting effects of friends and family on health outcomes in older adults. Am J Health Promot. 2000; 14: 362-370.
36. Uchino BN, Cacioppo JT, Kiecolt-Glaser JK. The relationship between social support and physiological processes: a review with emphasis on underlying mechanisms and implications for health. Psychol Bull. 1996; 119: 488-531.
37. James W. The Varieties of Religious Experience. New York: Random House; 1996.
38. Fraser GE. A comparison of first event coronary heart disease rates in two contrasting California populations. J Nutr Health Aging. 2005; 9: 53-58.
39. Rozanski A, Blumenthal JA, Davidson KW, Saab PG, Kubzansky L. The epidemiology, pathophysiology, and management of psychosocial risk factors in cardiac practice: the emerging field of behavioral cardiology. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2005; 45: 637-651.
40. Udupa K, Madanmohan, Bhavanani AB, Vijayalakshmi P, Krishnamurthy N. Effect of pranayam training on cardiac function in normal young volunteers. Indian J Physiol Pharmacol. 2003; 47: 27-33.
41. Vempati RP, Telles S. Yoga-based guided relaxation reduces sympathetic activity judged from baseline levels. Psychol Rep. 2002; 90: 487-494.
42. Airaksinen KE. Autonomic mechanisms and sudden death after abrupt coronary occlusion. Ann Med. 1999; 31: 240-245.
43. Billman GE. A comprehensive review and analysis of 25 years of data from an in vivo canine model of sudden cardiac death: implications for future anti-arrhythmic drug development. Pharmacol Ther. 2006a; 111: 808-835.
44. Billman GE. Heart rate response to onset of exercise: evidence for enhanced cardiac sympathetic activity in animals susceptible to ventricular fibrillation. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2006b; 291: H429-H435.
45. Schwartz P, La Rovere M, Vanoli E. Autonomic nervous system and sudden cardiac death: experimental basis and clinical observations for post-myocardial infarction risk stratification. Circulation. 1992; 85(Suppl 1): 177-191.
46. Hohnloser SH. Ventricular arrhythmias: antiadrenergic therapy for the patient with coronary artery disease. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol Ther. 2005; 10(Suppl 1): S23-S31.
47. Manfrini O, Pizzi C, Trere D, Fontana F, Bugiardini R. Parasympathetic failure and risk of subsequent coronary events in unstable angina and non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. Eur Heart J. 2003; 24: 1560-1566.
48. Eppinger H, Hess L. Vagotonia. Mental and Nervous Disease Monograph no. 20. New York: Nervous & Mental Disease; 1915.
49. Wenger MA. Studies of autonomic balance: a summary. Psychophysiology. 1966; 2: 173-186.
50. Malliani A. Heart rate variability: from bench to bedside. Eur J Int Med. 2005; 16: 12-20.
51. Malliani A, Montano N. Heart rate variability as a clinical tool. Ital Heart J. 2002; 3: 439-445.
52. Berntson GG, Cacioppo JT, Quigley KS. Respiratory sinus arrhythmia: autonomic origins, physiological mechanisms, and psychophysiological implications. Psychophysiology. 1993; 30: 183-196.
53. Berntson GG, Bigger JT, Eckberg DL, et al. Heart rate variability: origins, methods, and interpretive caveats. Psychophysiology. 1997; 34: 623-648.
54. Malik M. Heart rate variability: standards of measurement, physiological interpretation and clinical use. Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology and the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology. Circulation. 1996; 93: 1043-1065.
55. Eckberg DL. Sympathovagal balance: a critical appraisal. Circulation. 1997; 96: 3224-3232.
56. McEwen BS, Wingfield JC. The concept of allostasis in biology and biomedicine. Hormones Behav. 2003; 43: 2-15.
57. Sterling P, Eyer J. Biological basis of stress-related mortality. Soc Sci Med. 1981; 15: 3-42.
58. Sterling P, Eyer J. In: Fisher S, Reason J, eds. Handbook of Life Stress, Cognition and Health. New York: Wiley; 1988: 631.
59. Balanescu S, Corlan AD, Dorobantu M, Gherasim L. Prognostic value of heart rate variability after acute myocardial infarction. Med Sci Monit. 2004; 10: CR307-CR315.
60. Kleiger RE, Stein PK, Bigger JT Jr. Heart rate variability: measurement and clinical utility. Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol. 2005; 10: 88-101.
61. Tsuji H, Larson MG, Venditti FJ Jr, et al. Impact of reduced heart rate variability on risk for cardiac events: the Framingham Heart Study. Circulation. 1996; 94: 2850-2855.
62. Liao D, Cai J, Rosamond WD, et al. Cardiac autonomic function and incident coronary heart disease: a population-based case-cohort study: the ARIC Study: Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Am J Epidemiol. 1997; 145: 696-706.
63. Masi CM, Hawkley LC, Rickett EM, Cacioppo JT. Respiratory sinus arrhythmia and diseases of aging: obesity, diabetes mellitus, and hypertension. Biol Psychol. 2007; 74: 212-223.
64. Singh JP, Larson MG, Tsuji H, et al. Reduced heart rate variability and new-onset hypertension: insights into pathogenesis of hypertension: the Framingham Heart Study. Hypertension. 1998; 32: 293-297.
65. Aubert AE, Ramaekers D. Neurocardiology: the benefits of irregularity. The basics of methodology, physiology and current clinical applications. Acta Cardiol. 1999; 54: 107-120.
66. Hemingway H, Shipley M, Brunner E, et al. Does autonomic function link social position to coronary risk? The Whitehall II study. Circulation. 2005; 111: 3071-3077.
67. Dekker JM, Schouten EG, Klootwijk P, et al. Heart rate variability from short electrocardiographic recordings predicts mortality from all causes in middle-aged and elderly men: the Zutphen Study. Am J Epidemiol. 1997; 145: 899-908.
68. Gang Y, Malik M. Heart rate variability analysis in general medicine. Indian Pacing Electrophysiol J. 2003; 3: 34-40.
69. Friedman BH. An autonomic flexibility-neurovisceral integration model of anxiety and cardiac vagal tone. Biol Psychol. 2007; 74: 185-199.
70. Friedman BH, Thayer JF. Anxiety and autonomic flexibility: a cardiovascular approach. Biol Psychol. 1998; 49: 303-323.
71. Hoehn-Saric R, McLeod DR. Anxiety and arousal: physiological changes and their perception. J Affect Disord. 2000; 61: 217-224.
72. Thayer JF, Sternberg E. Beyond heart rate variability: vagal regulation of allostatic systems. Ann NY Acad Sci. 2006; 1088: 361-372.
73. Cacioppo JT, Hughes ME, Waite LJ, Hawkley LC, Thisted R. Loneliness as a specific risk factor for depressive symptoms: cross sectional and longitudinal analyses. Psychol Aging. 2006; 21: 140-151.
74. Berntson GG, Cacioppo JT, Binkley PF, et al. Autonomic cardiac control: III. Psychological stress and cardiac response in autonomic space as revealed by pharmacological blockades. Psychophysiology. 1994; 31: 599-608.
75. Cacioppo JT, Berntson GG, Binkley PF, et al. Autonomic cardiac control. II. Basal response, noninvasive indices, and autonomic space as revealed by autonomic blockades. Psychophysiology. 1994; 31: 586-598.
76. Sherwood A, Allen MT, Fahrenberg J, et al. Methodological guidelines for impedance cardiography. Psychophysiology. 1990; 27: 1-23.
77. Paloutzian RF, Ellison CW. Loneliness, spiritual well-being, and quality of life. In: Peplau LA, Periman D, eds. Loneliness: A Sourcebook of Current Theory, Research, and Therapy. New York: Wiley; 1982: 224-237.
78. Goldberg LR. The development of markers for the BigFive factor structure. Psychol Assess. 1992; 4: 26-42.
79. Russell D, Peplau LA, Cutrona CE. The revised UCLA Loneliness Scale: concurrent and discriminant validity evidence. J Pers Soc Psychol. 1980; 39: 472-480.
80. Cohen S, Kamarck T, Mermelstein R. A global measure of perceived stress. J Health Soc Behav. 1983; 24: 385-396.
81. Cohen S, Hoberman HM. Positive events and social supports as buffers of life change stress. J Appl Soc Psychol. 1983; 13: 99-125.
82. Cook WW, Medley DM. Proposed hostility and Pharisaic-virtue scales for the MMPI. Appl Psychol. 1954; 38: 414-418.
83. Radloff LS. The CES-D Scale: a self-report depression scale for research in the general population. Appl Psychol Meas. 1977; 1: 385-401.
84. Baron RM, Kenny DA. The moderator-mediator distinction in social psychological research: conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. J Pers Soc Psychol. 1986; 51(6): 1173-1182.
85. MacKinnon DP, Warsi G, Dwyer JH. A simulation study of mediated effect measures. Multivar Behav Res. 1995; 30: 41-62.
86. Preacher KJ, Hayes AF. SPSS and SAS procedures for estimating indirect effects in simple mediation models. Behav Res Meth Instrum Comput. 2004; 36(4): 717-731.
87. Hawkley LC, Burleson MH, Berntson GG, Cacioppo JT. Loneliness in everyday life: cardiovascular activity, psychosocial context, and health behaviors. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2003; 85: 105-120.
88. Uchino BN, Cacioppo JT, Kiecolt-Glaser JK. The relationship between social support and physiological processes: a review with emphasis on underlying mechanisms and implications for health. Psychol Bull. 1996; 119: 488-531.
89. Porges SW. A phylogenetic journey through the vague and ambiguous Xth cranial nerve: a commentary on contemporary heart rate variability research. Biol Psychol. 2007; 74: 301-307.