Frequency of private spiritual activity and cardiovascular risk in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative

Salmoirago‐Blotcher, Elena; Fitchett, George; Hovey, Kathleen M.; Schnall, Eliezer; Thomson, Cynthia A.; Andrews, Chris; Crawford, Sybil L.; OʼSullivan, Mary J.; Post, Stephen G.; Chlebowski, Rowan T.; Ockene, Judith K.

doi:10.1016/j.annepidem.2013.03.002

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“…Two longitudinal analyses conducted in a large cohort of healthy, older women enrolled in the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) did not find a protective association between religious affiliation, organizational religiosity, religious coping (Schnall et al, 2010) or private religious practice (Salmoirago-Blotcher et al, 2013) and CVD mortality. Similar findings were reported in a prospective cohort study involving 5000 healthy men and women enrolled in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) (Feinstein et al, 2010).…”

Section: Rs and Health Research: Current Findings And Critiquementioning

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Advancing our understanding of religion and spirituality in the context of behavioral medicine

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Recognizing and understanding the potentially powerful roles that religiousness and spirituality (RS) may serve in the prevention and amelioration of disease, as well as symptom management and health related quality of life, significantly enhances research and clinical efforts across many areas of behavioral medicine. This article examines the knowledge established to date and suggests advances that remain to be made. We begin with a brief summary of the current knowledge regarding RS as related to three exemplary health conditions: (a) cardiovascular disease; (b) cancer; and, (c) substance abuse. We then focus on particular concerns for future investigations, emphasizing conceptual issues, possible mediators and moderators of relationships or effects, and methodology. Our discussion is framed by a conceptual model that may serve to guide and organize future investigations. This model highlights a number of important issues regarding the study of links between RS and health: (a) RS comprise many diverse constructs, (b) the mechanisms through which RS may influence health outcomes are quite diverse, and (c) a range of different types of health and health relevant outcomes may be influenced by RS. The multidimensional nature of RS and the complexity of related associations with different types of health relevant outcomes present formidable challenges to empirical study in behavioral medicine. These issues are referred to throughout our review and we suggest several solutions to the presented challenges in our summary. We end with a presentation of barriers to be overcome, along with strategies for doing so, and concluding thoughts.

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“…A review literature concerning the religious affiliation and that of cardiovascular disease did not show any clear correlations between these variables [12][13][14]. Some studies, especially among Adventists, showed the influence of taking up religious practices on a reduction in mortality [15][16][17][18].…”

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The comparison of cardiovascular risk factors prevalence among Catholics and Seventh-day Adventists living in southern Poland

Majda

Zalewska-Puchała

Bodys-Cupak

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Pielegniarstwo XXI Wieku / Nursing in the 21st Century

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Results. The mean concentration of homocysteine and triglycerides in Catholics was significantly higher than in Adventists. Adventists had significantly higher blood pressure and mean HDL cholesterol concentration than Catholics. On the basis of BMI, overweight and obesity were ascertained in a somewhat greater percentage of Catholics than Adventists, and on the basis of waist circumference, android obesity was found to be more common in Catholics than in Adventists. Conclusions. Based on the SCORE scale, the risk of a cardiovascular event was significantly higher in Catholics than in Adventists.

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“…The acute physiological changes occurring during prayer and meditation have been extensively researched and show a reduction of sympathetic nervous system activity decrease, oxygen consumption, minute ventilation, and respiratory rate . Prayer has been linked with higher levels of cardiac autonomic control and increased baroreflex sensitivity, conditions that are associated with a reduced risk of cardiac arrhythmias and cardiac mortality [5,53,57].…”

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Cardiac autonomic modulation related to prayer may contribute to the reduced cardiovascular mortality associated with religiosity/spirituality

Tolentino¹,

Bedirian²

2019

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Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. During the past few decades, several studies have demonstrated an association between religiosity/spirituality and beneficial effects on mental and physical health. Longitudinal studies have found significant association between regular attendance at religious services and reduced all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. Among the several potential pathways of higher religiosity/spirituality, there are biological mechanisms such as decrease the inflammatory cytokines and cortisol levels, enhance of parasympathetic activation and attenuation of sympathetic nervous system activity. Prayer can be a possible mediator of the positive religiosity/spirituality effects in the cardiovascular system. The objective of this article is to review the potential mechanisms by which prayer interferes in the cardiovascular system, and which would explain its influences in cardiac mortality and morbidity. We found that prayer was associated with a lower prevalence of coronary artery disease. Studies have demonstrated that prayer was associated with a parasympathetic activity increase and decrease in the sympathetic nervous system component. In conclusion, prayer had been linked to higher levels of cardiac autonomic, a condition that is associated with a reduced risk of cardiac arrhythmias, and cardiac mortality. Scientific research on the health benefits of prayer should be expanded, aiming to obtain a clearer understanding of the possible positive action of prayer on the cardiovascular system, especially in the cardiac autonomic modulation. Although there is no recommendation of prayer prescription by cardiologists, the pivotal effects of this spiritual practice should be known within the cardiology.

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Frequency of private spiritual activity and cardiovascular risk in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative

Cited by 18 publications

References 39 publications

Advancing our understanding of religion and spirituality in the context of behavioral medicine

Advancing our understanding of religion and spirituality in the context of behavioral medicine

The comparison of cardiovascular risk factors prevalence among Catholics and Seventh-day Adventists living in southern Poland

Cardiac autonomic modulation related to prayer may contribute to the reduced cardiovascular mortality associated with religiosity/spirituality

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