In patients after open-heart surgery, music listening during bed rest increased the body's own plasma oxytocin versus bed rest only, where levels decreased.
In plain wordsIn patients after heart surgery, listening to music raised the body's own oxytocin levels, while levels fell with bed rest alone.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- IncreasePlasma oxytocin during bed rest
- Study
n = 40
- Comparator
- Bed rest only
- Outcome group
- Endogenous peptide levels · Mental health and mood
Source sentences
In the music group, levels of oxytocin increased significantly in contrast to the control group for which the trend over time was negative i.e., decreasing values.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
Forty patients undergoing open coronary artery bypass grafting and/or aortic valve replacement surgery were randomly allocated to either music listening during bed rest (n = 20) or bed rest only (n = 20).
This result measures the body's own Oxytocin. Nobody was given the peptide. It is not evidence about taking it.