Acknowledgments
Heart Failure, 3.224.212
HEART FAILURE
To Howard Resnick, Ph.D, for his guidance on Dharma concepts of Vedic philosophy and reciprocity meditation. To the coordinators of the Heart Failure Department - Dr. Guilherme Oliveira and the Integrative Medicine Department - Dr. Françoise Adam from Case Western Reserve University, for making it possible to participate in the SMART® Stress management and Mindfulness trainings, which are part of the foundations of this research. To the Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia for their support with laboratory tests. To the UFF Institute of Art and Social Communication and the professional Carlos Canano for mixing the meditation CD, and to Fabio Silva for the audio voiceover. To the Clínica Coração Valente physiotherapy team for conducting the functional tests, to Dr. Sandra Marina Ribeiro de Miranda for her contribution in enrolling the patients, to Hari Nogueira Cavalcante for the translating of this paper into English, and for my family, mentors, patients, and friends for all the teachings, love and support.Study associationThis article is part of the master’s thesis submitted by Vaisnava Nogueira Cavalcante, from Universidade Federal Fluminense.Ethics approval and consent to participateThis study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Faculdade de Medicina do Hospital Universitário Antônio Pedro under the protocol number 3.224.212 and Ethics Committee of the Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia under the protocol number 3.339.599. All the procedures in this study were in accordance with the 1975 Helsinki Declaration, updated in 2013. Informed consent was obtained from all participants included in the study.Sources of funding: There were no external funding sources for this study.