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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychophysiology. 2008 May 20;45(4):671–677. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00666.x

Table 2.

Cardiovascular Parameters for All Three Groups (Means ± SD)

Nonmeditators Kundalini Tibetan Buddhist
Resting heart rate: Visit 1 (bpm) 63.3 ± 10.0 67.0 ± 8.7 65.6 ± 14.9
Resting heart rate: Visit 2 (bpm) 65.8 ± 8.4 68.8 ± 11.5 65.3 ± 15.3
R-wave to pulse interval: Visit 1 (s) 0.269 ± 0.017 0.261 ± 0.013 0.266 ± 0.016
R-wave to pulse interval: Visit 2 (s) 0.266 ± 0.015 0.260 ± 0.014 0.264 ± 0.014