Singing lowers patient's blood pressure prior to surgery, case study reports
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 11:31
in Health & Medicine
Doctors report that singing reduced the blood pressure of a 76-year-old woman who had experienced severe preoperative hypertension prior to total knee replacement surgery for osteoarthritis. While the patient was unresponsive to aggressive pharmacologic interventions, the woman's blood pressure dropped dramatically when she sang several religious songs.
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