Yoga in Cardiovascular Disease and Rehabilitation: Integrating Complementary Medicine into Cardiovascular Medicine highlights recent research, clinical trials and experiments on yoga and meditation as a preventative measure against various major cardiovascular diseases, including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary artery disease and metabolic syndromes. Chapters discuss yoga's role in ameliorating cardiac dysfunction and current knowledge on the effects of yoga on the brain, emotion, and other factors that initiate and perpetuate vascular inflammation. Cellular, genetic, and molecular effects of yoga based on experimental evidence are also covered in detail, providing readers with the latest research on the effects of yoga and meditation in heart diseases.
This book also explores current knowledge gaps in yoga research to facilitate further research and is a comprehensive reference to scientists and clinicians interested in yoga's health effects, including preventing and treating diseases.
Table of Contents
1. Yoga and meditation in Cardiovascular Diseases2. Medical Model of Yoga and meditation
3. Yoga and meditation as preventive tools
4. Safety considerations of Yoga and meditation in cardiovascular diseases
5. Yoga and meditation in the management of arterial hypertension
6. Yoga and meditation in coronary heart disease
7. Role of Yoga and meditation in prevention and management of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and its Complications
8. Yoga and meditation for Heart failure
9. Yoga and meditation in Cardiac Arrhythmia
10. Yoga and meditation in Cardiometabolic Syndromes
11. Yoga and meditation for stroke
12. A yoga-based cardiac rehabilitation program for cardiovascular health
13. Principles of Diet in a Yogic lifestyle and meditation
14. Yoga and meditation as a Potential Intervention for Preventing Cardiac Complications in COVID-19
Authors
Indranill Basu Ray Cardiologist and Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Memphis VA Medical Center; Adjunct Professor, The University of Memphis, TN, USA. Dr. Basu Ray is currently a staff Cardiologist and Cardiac Electrophysiologist at the Memphis Veterans Medical Center in Memphis, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Memphis. He is a former faculty member in Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School.Dr. Basu Ray was appointed as an author of the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Statement on the role of meditation in cardiovascular risk reduction. He has delivered lectures on yoga at many premier institutes, including Harvard, MIT, Georgia Tech, Cleveland, and the Mayo Clinic. His research interests include use of AI data to predict emotional states like depression that can affect prognosis of cardiovascular disease, role of meditation, stress reduction and biofeedback on the mind-heart axis to prevent and treat cardiovascular pathology initiated in a stressed organism, and the study of Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) morphology to determine the factors that induce thrombus formation in patients with atrial fibrillation. His work has been published in leading journals, such as New England Journal of Medicine and Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine.
