Compared to WL, CBT was associated with a significant increase in 24-h and daytime HRV triangular index and a borderline significant increase in 24-h LF-HRV, as well as a trend decrease in daytime SBP.
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Does psychological treatment of major depression reduce cardiac risk biomarkers? An exploratory randomized controlled trial.
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With respect to blood pressure measures which were increased (or marginally increased) in depressed patients at baseline, the CBT group showed a trend decrease in daytime SBP ( d = 0.36), compared to patients in the WL group (shown in Fig. 2 ).