RSS1: Yoga’s Cardiovascular Effects: New Insights from Recent Findings

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RSS1: Yoga’s Cardiovascular Effects: New Insights from Recent Findings

Presenter bio: Stacy Cooper, PhD

This session features highlights from recent work completed at Texas State University from studies on yoga’s effects on sodium-induced declines in vascular function in Black women and the effects of yoga and slow, deep breathing interventions on blood pressure in adults with hypertension.

Learning Objectives

  1. Understand how high sodium intake affects blood pressure and vascular health and how yoga could be leveraged to mitigate these effects.
  2. Review recent evidence on the effects of yoga on blood pressure in adults with hypertension.

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