Status:
COMPLETED
A New Translational Tool for Studying the Role of Breathing in Meditation
Lead Sponsor:
University of California, San Francisco
Collaborating Sponsors:
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
Conditions:
Hypertension
Eligibility:
FEMALE
50+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
A recent National Health Interview Survey reported that breathing exercises were the second most common complementary and alternative medicine practice in the United States, following only the use of ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Inclusion Criteria
- Mean 24-hr SBP: 130-139 mmHg
- Female
- \> 50 years of age
- Post menopausal, defined as greater than or equal to one year without a menstrual cycle.
- Body Mass Index (BMI): 19-31
- English speaking (Patients not able to read and speak English will be excluded as the behavioral group interventions are conducted in English)
- Has a personal physician
- Exclusion Criteria (Individuals will be filtered in the KP OSCA database according to the following ICD-9 codes):
- Respiration:
- X chronic Bronchitis incl COPD
- X emphysema
- X asthma
- 494-496; 500-519: all kinds of chronic pulmonary conditions
- Cardiovascular:
- 9 chronic ischemic heart disease
- X cardiomyopathies
- X heart failure
- 430-438 cerebrovascular diseases
- Kidney:
- 582-583 chronic glomerulonephritis
- 584-588 renal failure
- Liver:
- \- 571.X chronic liver disease and cirrhosis Smoker: 305.1
- Psychiatric:
- 290-299 dementia/schizophrenia/ psychoses…
- 303, 304 alcohol or drug dependence
- 317-319 mental retardation
- Medications:
- All blood pressure medications
- All tranquilizers, benzodiazepins if prescribed regularly, e.g. every month
- All narcotics if prescribed regularly, e.g. every month
- Other:
- \- Plan to relocate residence outside recruitment area during the intervention or follow- period
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
February 1 2011
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
August 31 2017
Estimated Enrollment :
99 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01264627
Start Date
February 1 2011
End Date
August 31 2017
Last Update
November 24 2020
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