V A Barnes

Summary

Affiliation: Medical College of Georgia
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Ethnicity and socioeconomic status: impact on cardiovascular activity at rest and during stress in youth with a family history of hypertension
    V A Barnes
    Georgia Institute for Prevention of Human Diseases and Accidents, Augusta 30912, USA
    Ethn Dis 10:4-16. 2000
  2. ncbi Impact of Transcendental Meditation on cardiovascular function at rest and during acute stress in adolescents with high normal blood pressure
    V A Barnes
    Department of Pediatrics, Georgia Institute for Prevention of Human Diseases and Accidents, Building HS1640, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA 30912, USA
    J Psychosom Res 51:597-605. 2001
  3. ncbi Reproducibility of ambulatory blood pressure measures in African-American adolescents
    Vernon A Barnes
    Georgia Institute for Prevention of Human Diseases and Accidents, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia 30912, USA
    Ethn Dis 12:S3-101-6. 2002
  4. ncbi Impact of stress reduction on negative school behavior in adolescents
    Vernon A Barnes
    Georgia Institute for Prevention of Human Diseases and Accidents, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA 30912, USA
    Health Qual Life Outcomes 1:10. 2003
  5. ncbi Impact of transcendental meditation on ambulatory blood pressure in African-American adolescents
    Vernon A Barnes
    Georgia Institute for Prevention of Human Diseases and Accidents, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia 30912, USA
    Am J Hypertens 17:366-9. 2004
  6. ncbi Temporal stability of twenty-four-hour ambulatory hemodynamic bioimpedance measures in African American adolescents
    Vernon A Barnes
    Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia 30912, USA
    Blood Press Monit 9:173-7. 2004
  7. ncbi Reply to critics of research on transcendental meditation in the prevention and control of hypertension
    David W Orme-Johnson
    J Hypertens 23:1107-8; author reply 1108-9. 2005
  8. ncbi African-American adolescents' stress responses after the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks
    Vernon A Barnes
    Department of Pediatrics, Georgia Institute for Prevention of Human Diseases and Accidents, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA
    J Adolesc Health 36:201-7. 2005
  9. ncbi A randomized controlled trial of stress reduction in African Americans treated for hypertension for over one year
    Robert H Schneider
    Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention, Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa, USA
    Am J Hypertens 18:88-98. 2005
  10. ncbi Impact of meditation on resting and ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate in youth
    Vernon A Barnes
    Georgia Institute for Prevention of Human Diseases and Accidents, Augusta, GA 30912, USA
    Psychosom Med 66:909-14. 2004

Research Grants

  1. Impact of LifeSkills Training on Blood Pressure in Youth
    Vernon Barnes; Fiscal Year: 2007

Collaborators

Detail Information

Publications15

  1. ncbi Ethnicity and socioeconomic status: impact on cardiovascular activity at rest and during stress in youth with a family history of hypertension
    V A Barnes
    Georgia Institute for Prevention of Human Diseases and Accidents, Augusta 30912, USA
    Ethn Dis 10:4-16. 2000
    ..The purpose of the present study was to examine the potential interaction of ethnicity and SES on hemodynamic functioning at rest and during acute stress in normotensive adolescents with a family history of essential hypertension (EH)...
  2. ncbi Impact of Transcendental Meditation on cardiovascular function at rest and during acute stress in adolescents with high normal blood pressure
    V A Barnes
    Department of Pediatrics, Georgia Institute for Prevention of Human Diseases and Accidents, Building HS1640, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA 30912, USA
    J Psychosom Res 51:597-605. 2001
    ..This study examined the impact of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program on cardiovascular (CV) reactivity in adolescents with high normal BP...
  3. ncbi Reproducibility of ambulatory blood pressure measures in African-American adolescents
    Vernon A Barnes
    Georgia Institute for Prevention of Human Diseases and Accidents, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia 30912, USA
    Ethn Dis 12:S3-101-6. 2002
    ..The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate the reproducibility of ambulatory blood pressure (BP) measures in African-American (AA) adolescents...
  4. ncbi Impact of stress reduction on negative school behavior in adolescents
    Vernon A Barnes
    Georgia Institute for Prevention of Human Diseases and Accidents, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA 30912, USA
    Health Qual Life Outcomes 1:10. 2003
    ..The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of stress reduction via the Transcendental Meditation program on school rule infractions in adolescents...
  5. ncbi Impact of transcendental meditation on ambulatory blood pressure in African-American adolescents
    Vernon A Barnes
    Georgia Institute for Prevention of Human Diseases and Accidents, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia 30912, USA
    Am J Hypertens 17:366-9. 2004
    ..04) and diastolic BP (P < .06) in the TM group compared with the control group across the visits demonstrate a beneficial impact of the TM program in youth at risk for the development of hypertension...
  6. ncbi Temporal stability of twenty-four-hour ambulatory hemodynamic bioimpedance measures in African American adolescents
    Vernon A Barnes
    Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia 30912, USA
    Blood Press Monit 9:173-7. 2004
    ..The reliability of ambulatory impedance cardiography has not been evaluated...
  7. ncbi Reply to critics of research on transcendental meditation in the prevention and control of hypertension
    David W Orme-Johnson
    J Hypertens 23:1107-8; author reply 1108-9. 2005
  8. ncbi African-American adolescents' stress responses after the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks
    Vernon A Barnes
    Department of Pediatrics, Georgia Institute for Prevention of Human Diseases and Accidents, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA
    J Adolesc Health 36:201-7. 2005
    ..To examine the impact of indirect exposure to the 9/11/01 attacks upon physical and emotional stress-related responses in a community sample of African-American (AA) adolescents...
  9. ncbi A randomized controlled trial of stress reduction in African Americans treated for hypertension for over one year
    Robert H Schneider
    Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention, Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa, USA
    Am J Hypertens 18:88-98. 2005
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  10. ncbi Impact of meditation on resting and ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate in youth
    Vernon A Barnes
    Georgia Institute for Prevention of Human Diseases and Accidents, Augusta, GA 30912, USA
    Psychosom Med 66:909-14. 2004
    ..3 vs. 0.3 bpm).CONCLUSION: These findings demonstrate the potential beneficial impact of meditation on blood pressure and heart rate in the natural environment in healthy normotensive youth...
  11. ncbi Impact of breathing awareness meditation on ambulatory blood pressure and sodium handling in prehypertensive African American adolescents
    Vernon A Barnes
    Georgia Institute for Prevention of Human Diseases and Accidents, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta 30912, USA
    Ethn Dis 18:1-5. 2008
    ..This study evaluated the impact of a breathing awareness meditation (BAM) program on ambulatory blood pressure and sodium handling in African American adolescents with high-normal systolic blood pressure (SBP) levels...
  12. ncbi Long-term effects of stress reduction on mortality in persons > or = 55 years of age with systemic hypertension
    Robert H Schneider
    Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention, Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa, USA
    Am J Cardiol 95:1060-4. 2005
    ....
  13. ncbi EEG, hypometabolism, and ketosis during transcendental meditation indicate it does not increase epilepsy risk
    Vernon A Barnes
    Med Hypotheses 65:202-3. 2005
  14. ncbi Physiology of long pranayamic breathing: neural respiratory elements may provide a mechanism that explains how slow deep breathing shifts the autonomic nervous system
    Ravinder Jerath
    Augusta Women s Center, 2100 Central Avenue, Suite 6 and 7, Augusta, GA 30904, USA
    Med Hypotheses 67:566-71. 2006
    ..Along with facilitating the design of clinical breathing techniques for the treatment of autonomic nervous system and other disorders, this model will also validate pranayama as a topic requiring more research...
  15. ncbi Perceived stress, heart rate, and blood pressure among adolescents with family members deployed in Operation Iraqi Freedom
    Vernon A Barnes
    Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA 30912, USA
    Mil Med 172:40-3. 2007
    ..02). Military dependent European Americans exhibited higher systolic BP compared to the other groups on the second evaluation (p < 0.03)...

Research Grants2

  1. Impact of LifeSkills Training on Blood Pressure in Youth
    Vernon Barnes; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..This project has the potential to significantly impact cardiovascular disease by reducing blood pressure in youth. ..