Impact of breathing awareness meditation on ambulatory blood pressure and sodium handling in prehypertensive African American adolescents

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-5

  Barnes, Vernon A ^a   Pendergrast, Robert A ^a   Harshfield, Gregory A ^a   Treiber, Frank A ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; African American; Blood pressure monitoring; Clinical trials; Hypertension; Meditation; Sodium handling

Indexed keywords

SODIUM;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BREATHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDITATION; SCREENING; SODIUM URINE LEVEL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TEACHER; URINALYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; URINE;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AWARENESS; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEDITATION; RESPIRATION; SODIUM;

EID: 47549100402     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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