Mind-Body Approaches in Heart Failure Prevention

Abstract The impact of stress and depression on outcomes in patient with cardiovascular disease, including heart failure, is now well recognized and provides clear evidence for the importance of the mind-body connection. Ongoing research has identified physiologic pathways that govern these interactions that accordingly constitute targets for preventive therapies. A variety of non-pharmacologic practices and interventions that affect the mind-body axis have been preliminarily tested in patients with heart failure. Further development of these interventions may provide new cost-effective approaches to augment current guideline directed therapy and further enhance the prevention of adverse clinical events in patients with heart failure.
Source: Current Cardiovascular Risk Reports - Category: Cardiology Source Type: research