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Music decreases aortic stiffness and wave reflections
Vlachopoulos, Charalambos
Aggelakas, Angelos
Ioakeimidis,
Nikolaos
Xaplanteris, Panagiotis
Terentes-Printzios, Dimitrios
and Abdelrasoul, Mahmoud
Lazaros, George
Tousoulis, Dimitris
Objective: Music has been related to cardiovascular health and used as
adjunct therapy in patients with cardiovascular disease. Aortic
stiffness and wave reflections are predictors of cardiovascular risk. We
investigated the short-term effect of classical and rock music on
arterial stiffness and wave reflections.
Methods: Twenty healthy individuals (22.5 +/- 2.5 years) were studied on
three different occasions and listened to a 30-min music track
compilation (classical, rock, or no music for the sham procedure).
Results: Both classical and rock music resulted in a decrease of
carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV) immediately after the end of
music listening (all p < 0.01). Augmentation index (AIx) decreased with
either classical or rock music in a more sustained way (nadir by 6.0%
and 5.8%, respectively, at time zero post-music listening, all p <
0.01). When music preference was taken into consideration, both
classical and rock music had a more potent effect on PWV in classical
aficionados (by 0.20 m/s, p = 0.003 and 0.13 m/s, p = 0.015,
respectively), whereas there was no effect in rock aficionados (all p =
NS). Regarding wave reflections, classical music led to a more potent
response in classical aficionados (AIx decrease by 9.45%), whereas rock
led to a more potent response to rock aficionados (by 10.7%, all p <
0.01).
Conclusions: Music, both classical and rock, decreases aortic stiffness
and wave reflections. Effect on aortic stiffness lasts for as long as
music is listened to, while classical music has a sustained effect on
wave reflections. These findings may have important implications,
extending the spectrum of lifestyle modifications that can ameliorate
arterial function. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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