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Article: CHECKUP : NEWS, TIPS AND TRENDS MEDITATION MAY BE EFFECTIVE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE CURE.(L.A. LIFE)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- April 21, 1997
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Can you meditate high blood pressure away?
That's what researchers at the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, affiliated with King-Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles, are trying to find out. In a six-month study funded by the National Institutes of Health, they're searching for 100 African-Americans age 21 to 71 with mild high blood pressure - 140-179 (systolic) over 90-109 (dyastolic) - to help gauge whether 20 minutes of transcendental meditation twice a day will lower blood pressure as well as medication and exercise.
Chinelo Haney, project director, said studies in the November 1995 and August 1996 editions of the American Heart ...
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