Effects of Meditation on Mechanism of Coronary Heart Disease

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Coronary Heart Disease

In brief

To study the effects of Transcendental Meditation on Coronary Heart Disease

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00010738

Run by

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

People needed

145

Starts

1999-09-01

Expected to finish

2002-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2006-08-18

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Able to attend training sessions and meetings
• Local residence

You may not qualify if…

• Comorbid disease precluding survival in group
• MI, unstable angina, CABG or PTCA within last three months.
• Cognitive/psychological/substance abuse impairment
• Atrial fibrillation, predominant pacemaker rhythm or significant conduction system disease
• Significant valvular heart disease
• Class III or IV heart failure
• Renal failure
• Participating in a formal stress management program
• Participation in another trial

Where it is running

• Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center — Los Angeles, California, United States

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