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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2014;83(5):315-7.
doi: 10.1159/000359956. Epub 2014 Aug 6.

Tai chi meditation effects on nuclear factor-κB signaling in lonely older adults: a randomized controlled trial

David S Black  1 , Michael R Irwin, Richard Olmstead, Ellen Ji, Elizabeth Crabb Breen, Sarosh J Motivala
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Randomized Controlled Trial

Tai chi meditation effects on nuclear factor-κB signaling in lonely older adults: a randomized controlled trial

David S Black et al. Psychother Psychosom. 2014.
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Fig. 1
a Estimated PSS levels (±SE), covarying for pre-intervention PSS score. b Estimated NF-κB activation (±SE), covarying for pre-intervention NF-κB; * p < 0.05 for difference between groups.
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Fig. 2
Correlation between changes from pre- to postintervention visits in PSS and NF-κB activation for the participants in the TCC and SHE control groups, Spearman's r = 0.46, p = 0.05, n = 19.
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