[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Music Is Good for the Heart
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Music Is Good for the Heart
Reuters Health
Friday, October 7, 2005
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study shows that listening to music that has
a slow or meditative tempo has a relaxing effect on people, slowing their
breathing and heart rate, whereas listening to faster music with a more upbeat
tempo has the opposite effect -- speeding up respiration and heart rate.
The results, which appear in the journal Heart, support a growing body of
research on the potential stress-reducing health benefits of music.
Other research has shown that music can alleviate stress, improve athletic
performance, improve movement in neurologically impaired patients with stroke
or Parkinson's disease, and even boost milk production in cattle, Dr. Peter
Sleight from the University of Oxford in the UK and colleagues note in their
report.
In the current study, researchers monitored breathing rate, blood pressure and
other heart and respiratory indexes, in 24 healthy young men and women, before
and while listening to short excerpts of different kinds of music including
slow and fast classical music of differing complexities and rap music. They
also monitored the subjects during 2-minute musical intermissions.
Half of the subjects were trained musicians; the other half had no musical
training.
The investigators report that listening to music initially produced varying
levels of arousal -- accelerated breathing, increased blood pressure and heart
rate -- that is directly proportional to the tempo of the music and perhaps the
complexity of the rhythm.
The style of the music or an individual's music preference seems less important
than the tempo of the music.
They also found that calm is induced by slower rhythms and, interestingly, by
short pauses or intermissions in the music. Pausing the music for 2 minutes
actually induces a condition of relaxation greater than that observed before
subjects began listening to the music tracks, the investigators report.
These effects are most striking for people who have musical training, perhaps
because they have learned to synchronize their breathing with the musical
segments. "Musicians breathe faster with faster tempi, and had slower baseline
breathing rates than non-musicians," according to the investigators.
Sleight and coworkers speculate that music may give pleasure (and perhaps
health benefits) as a result of a controlled alteration between arousal and
relaxation.
The present study suggests, they conclude, that the appropriate selection of
music -- alternating fast and slower rhythms interspersed with pauses -- can be
used to induce relaxation and may, therefore, be beneficial in heart disease
and stroke.
SOURCE: Heart 2005.
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