Clinical
Documentation In Support of Slow Breathing to Lower Blood Pressure
The
results
of numerous clinical trials have been published in
respected medical journals around the world including the Journal
of
Clinical Hypertension, American
Journal of Hypertension, Journal
of
Human Hypertension, Hypertension
Research (Japan)
and Circulation,
the journal of the American Heart Association.
Slow
breathing is the only
fully natural blood
pressure treatment to be recognized by the medical profession. It is
used, endorsed and/or taught by leading institutions including Harvard,
Medical School, The
Mayo Clinic, John
Hopkins, Rush
Presbyterian
Hospital and the American
Heart Association among
many others.
Dr.
David
Anderson of the National
Institutes of Health is a major researcher and proponent of slow
breathing. Sponsored by the National
Institute on Aging, Dr. Anderson has undertaken the largest study of
slow breathing so
far and began trials in May of 2007. The results will be published on
this website as soon as they are available.
It's
easy
to see summaries and results of previous trials
for yourself. What follows below is just a small sample of the
available documentation. Just click on any of the links to access the
actual
journal articles as posted on the website of the National
Library of
Medicine and the National Institutes of Health:
1. Breathing-control lowers blood pressure
Journal
of Human Hypertension, 2001 Apr;15(4):263-9
2. Listening
to music found to lower blood pressure
Reuters, Friday, May 16, 2008, plus numerous
other news sources
3. Treating hypertension with a device that slows
and regularises breathing
Journal
of Human Hypertension, 2001 Apr;15(4):271-8
4. Nonpharmacologic treatment of hypertension by
respiratory exercise in the home
American
Journal of Hypertension, 2004 Apr;17(4):370-4
5. Device-guided breathing exercises reduce blood
pressure
American
Journal of Hypertension, 2001 Jan;14(1):74-6
6. Nonpharmacologic treatment of resistant
hypertensives by device-guided slow breathing exercises
American Journal of Hypertension,
2003 Jun;16(6):484-7
7. Graded blood pressure reduction in
hypertensive outpatients associated with use of a device to assist with
slow breathing
Journal of Clinical Hypertension,
2004 Oct;6(10):553-9
8. How does deep breathing affect office blood
pressure and pulse rate?
Hypertension Research,, Japan,
2005 Jun;28(6):499-504
9. Treatment of hypertension with device-guided
breathing exercise
Harefuah,, Israel, 2003
Oct;142(10):677-9, 718
10. Slow breathing improves arterial baroreflex
sensitivity and decreases blood pressure in essential hypertension
Hypertension, Italy, 2005
Oct;46(4):714-8. Epub 2005 Aug 29
11. Integrating music in breathing training and
relaxation: II. Applications.
Biofeedback
Self Regulation, 1990 Jun;15(2):171-7
12. Slow Breathing Increases Arterial Baroreflex
Sensitivity in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure
Circulation Journal of the
American Heart Association)2002;105:143
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