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Participation in a 6- to 9-month program of transcendental meditation led to significant decreases in carotid intima-media thickness--an established surrogate measure of coronary atherosderosis--in African American patients with hypertension.
This preliminary result was "remarkable" and paralleled the effects seen in some trials with statins, Dr. Philippe Szapary said at a conference on alternative and complementary medicine sponsored by the University of Chicago.
The transcendental meditation (TM) study conducted by a group of researchers from the College of Maharishi Vedic Medicine, Fairfield, Iowa, included 138 black patients with high-normal hypertension from Los Angeles randomized to undergo training in TM and then perform the technique twice a day for 20 minutes. Patients in the control group underwent a standard ...