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Mind-Body Approaches in Heart Failure Prevention

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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.

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Binkley, P.F. Mind-Body Approaches in Heart Failure Prevention. Curr Cardiovasc Risk Rep 10, 2 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12170-016-0482-9

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