East meets west in psychiatry: Yoga as an adjunct therapy for management of anxiety.

Purpose: Provide yoga for coping and symptom management in a locked, adult inpatient psychiatric unit.

Design: Hatha yoga was offered to inpatients with mood disorders and/or psychosis 3 times per week in this evidence-based practice change project. Impact on sleep was examined using recorded sleep hours.

Effect of gender on endothelium-dependent dilation to bradykinin in human adipose microvessels.

We examined the influence of gender and climacteric status, two coronary risk factors, on bradykinin (BK)-induced dilation in adipose arterioles from men and women of different ages [premenopausal women (Pre-W), postmenopausal women (Post-W), and similar aged men (Y-M and O-M), respectively]. We examined the responses from both omental (more closely associated with coronary disease) and subcutaneous fat. Tissues were obtained at surgery and cannulated (60 mmHg) for measurement of internal diameter.