Mindfulness trial reports lower blood pressure during haemodialysis
Patients with blood pressure rises during dialysis had lower readings with mindfulness than standard care, but the abstract does not report how large the differences were.
Based on the published abstract. The full paper may contain additional methods, results and limitations.
The 30-second takeaway
Patients in the mindfulness group had lower blood pressure during dialysis and improvements in several quality-of-life areas. Social functioning did not show a statistically significant improvement. These findings concern people with dialysis-related hypertension in a hospital trial; they do not establish benefits for other forms of high blood pressure or show how large the changes were.
The abstract omits the size of blood pressure differences and details of the meditation program. It also does not define the reported adverse reactions, limiting interpretation of the safety finding.
What researchers found
Blood pressure during dialysis
After 12 weeks, systolic, diastolic and mean arterial pressures were lower with mindfulness than with standard care; effect sizes were not reported.
What improved
The trial also reported improvements in physical function, pain, energy, emotional well-being and sleep. These are distinct quality-of-life domains, so the result should not be read as improvement in every aspect of life.
Interpreting safety cautiously
Adverse reactions were reported less often in the mindfulness group. Without descriptions of those events or longer follow-up, the abstract supports a limited comparison within this trial, rather than a broad claim that meditation is always safe.
The original publication
Effects of mindfulness meditation on blood pressure and quality of life in patients with intradialytic hypertension during haemodialysis: A randomised controlled trial.
Wu Y, Xia Q, Gao Y et al.
Complement Ther Med · 2025
- PubMed ID
- 40967424
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