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An American Heart Association Conference announced the findings from the research data collection and medical assessment. The UCLA study showed that trained Assistance Therapy dogs, visiting severely ill cardiac patients in intensive care, lowered their stress and anxiety and their heart and lung pressure significantly. Medical colleagues worked with 76 heart failure patients in hospital, conducting several physical and psychological tests. The patients were randomly divided into three groups. Individual patients were either visited by a human volunteer with a trained dog, by a human volun...