TY - JOUR
T1 - Study of Meditation and Blood Pressure
AU - Herxheimer, Andrew
AU - Frankel, Bernard L.
AU - Weinshilboum, Richard
AU - Stone, Richard A.
AU - de Leo, James
PY - 1976/4/1
Y1 - 1976/4/1
N2 - To the Editor: In the otherwise enjoyable paper by Stone and De Leo on “Psychotherapeutic Control of Hypertension” (N Engl J Med 294:80–84, 1976) the authors' interpretation of the changes in furosemide-stimulated plasma-renin activity (PRA) must be questioned. The activity decreased in both treated and control groups, and the mean decrease was actually greater in the controls than in the treated patients. Nevertheless, because the fall reached statistical significance only in the treated and not in the control group, the authors hypothesize that in the treatment group, “a decrement of sympathetic tone was responsible for the changes of PRA.
AB - To the Editor: In the otherwise enjoyable paper by Stone and De Leo on “Psychotherapeutic Control of Hypertension” (N Engl J Med 294:80–84, 1976) the authors' interpretation of the changes in furosemide-stimulated plasma-renin activity (PRA) must be questioned. The activity decreased in both treated and control groups, and the mean decrease was actually greater in the controls than in the treated patients. Nevertheless, because the fall reached statistical significance only in the treated and not in the control group, the authors hypothesize that in the treatment group, “a decrement of sympathetic tone was responsible for the changes of PRA.
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM197604012941419
DO - 10.1056/NEJM197604012941419
M3 - Letter
C2 - 768762
AN - SCOPUS:0016941423
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 294
SP - 786
EP - 787
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 14
ER -