Decreased blood-pressure in pharmacologically treated hypertensive patients who regularly elicited the relaxation response.
Decreased blood-pressure in pharmacologically treated hypertensive patients who regularly elicited the relaxation response.
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经常引起放松反应的药物治疗高血压患者血压降低。
DOI:
10.1016/s0140-6736(74)92596-3
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发表时间:
1974
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影响因子:
168.9
通讯作者:
H. Klemchuk
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作者:
Herbert Benson;Barbara R. Marzetta;BernardA Rosner;H. Klemchuk
A wakeful hypometabolic state may be induced by simple, non-cultic mental techniques or by traditional meditational practices. The hypometabolic state seems to represent an integrated hypothalamic response ("relaxation response") which is consistent with a state of decreased sympathetic-nervous-system activity. A prospective investigation was designed to test whether regular elicitation of the relaxation response might lower blood-pressures in hypertensive patients who were maintained on constant antihypertensive therapy. Fourteen people were investigated. During the control period of 5.6 weeks, blood-pressures did not change significantly from day to day and averaged 145.6 mm.Hg systolic and 91.9 mm.Hg diastolic. During the experimental period of 20 weeks, systolic blood-pressures decreased to 135.0 mm.Hg (P < 0.01) and diastolic blood-pressures fell to 87.0 mm.Hg (P < 0.05). The regular elicitation of the relaxation response may, therefore, have usefulness in the management of hypertensive subjects who are already on drug therapy. The use of the relaxation response may influence the economics of the therapy of hypertension since it is practised at no cost other than time.