Transcendental Meditation decreases risk of heart failure
Transcendental meditation decreases risk of heart failure greatly. Its a widely practiced, stress reducing technique which significantly decreases the severity of heart failure.
According to a first-of-its-kind study published in Ethnicity and Disease, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania evaluated subjects who were recently hospitalised with congestive heart failure. Participants were randomised to either the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique or health education in addition to usual medical care.
Researchers measured changes in heart function with a six-minute walk test, and measures for quality of life, depression, and rehospitalizations. Changes in outcomes from baseline to three and six months after treatment were analysed.
Alternative therapies are increasingly gaining acceptance in mainstream mendicine. According to study’s lead author Ravishankar Jayadevappa of the University of Pennsylvania Department of Medicine, the TM group significantly improved on the six-minute walk test after both three and six months of TM practice compared to the control group.
 The TM group also showed improvements in quality of life measurements, depression, and had fewer rehospitalizations. Congestive heart failure accounts for millions of hospital admissions every year in hospitals across the world.
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