Is religion therapeutically significant for hypertension?
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Is religion therapeutically significant for hypertension?
Epidemiologic studies of the effects of religion on blood pressure suggest that religious commitment is inversely associated with blood pressure and that several religious denominations or groups have relatively low rates of hypertension-related morbidity and mortality. In this review, we examine the implication that certain characteristics and functions of religion account for this association...
متن کاملA Multi‐target Small Molecule for Targeted Transcriptional Activation of Therapeutically Significant Nervous System Genes
An integrated multi-target small molecule capable of altering dynamic epigenetic and transcription programs associated with the brain and nervous system has versatile applications in the regulation of therapeutic and cell-fate genes. Recently, we have been constructing targeted epigenetic ON switches by integrating sequence-specific DNA binding pyrrole-imidazole polyamides with a potent histone...
متن کاملSignificant Role of Religion in Influencing Consumer Behavior
In a constantly changing and increasingly globalised world, religion still plays a significant role in influencing consumer behavior. The intent behind this study is to scrutinize the effect of normative factors on Muslim consumers’ apparel purchasing decisions. The survey was comprised of a sample of 500 Muslim consumers from the universities and shopping malls in Faisalabad city of Pakistan. ...
متن کاملHormesis Is Biology, Not Religion
Should hormesis, as Thayer et al. (2006) implied in the title of their letter in the November 2006 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives, be dismissed by scientists, regulators, and others as simply a new faithbased religion? No. Hormesis is a data-based biological reality, one that challenges the lowdose assumptions that currently drive risk assessment processes used by regulatory and pub...
متن کاملd IS SCIENCE A RELIGION ?
Science and religion have been in conflict for hundreds of years as each claims domain over similar territory. Once the heavens had much more religious significance as Galileo found to his dismay. Over time the heavens have been demystified so that now space is more a new region of exploration than veneration for most. The conflict over evolution vs. creation continues 150 years after Darwin, a...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Social Science & Medicine
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0277-9536
DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(89)90129-9