Comment on 'Investigating the effect of the Transcendental Meditation Technique on blood pressure: a systematic review and meta-analysis'
Orme-Johnson, David (2015). Comment on 'Investigating the effect of the Transcendental Meditation Technique on blood pressure: a systematic review and meta-analysis'. Journal of Human Hypertension, 30(6), 412.
Letter to the editor commenting on the Bai et al. blood-pressure meta-analysis. Published online in 2015 and assigned to the 2016 print issue; indexed here under 2015 as approved. It reports no new trial or systematic review.
- Year
- 2015
- Journal
- Journal of Human Hypertension
- Publication type
- Journal
- Paper type
- Research Review
- Section
- Review Papers
Findings (3)
Review Paper—Health
Argues that baseline blood pressure may confound age-related subgroup differences in the reviewed trials.
Transcendental Meditation · Review Paper
Questions interpretation of study-duration effects because duration varies little and is confounded with initial blood pressure.
Transcendental Meditation · Review Paper
Discusses sex differences and suggests further controlled investigation; numerical outcomes cited in the letter belong to earlier studies.
Transcendental Meditation · Review Paper