Meditation Reduces Sympathetic Activation and Improves the Quality of Life in Elderly Patients with Optimally Treated Heart Failure: A Prospective Randomized Study - Concepedia

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Meditation Reduces Sympathetic Activation and Improves the Quality of Life in Elderly Patients with Optimally Treated Heart Failure: A Prospective Randomized Study

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2005

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José Antônio Ésper Curiati, Edimar Alcides Bocchi, José Octávio Freire, Ana Claudia Arantes, Márcia Regina Brochetto-Braga, Yolanda García García, Guilherme Veiga Guimarães, Wilson Jacob Fo

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Abstract

In elderly patients with optimally treated CHF, meditation reduced NE, improved quality of life, and reduced the VE/VCO(2) slope. Our results support the possible role of meditation as a new hope in the treatment of CHF.

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