Calm Down: Research Shows Anger Could Lead To A Heart Attack

Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association, show that anger may indeed affect the heart because of how it impairs blood vessel function. Previous research has suggested there’s a link between an acute episode of anger and an increased risk of heart attack. Researchers from Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Yale School of Medicine, St. John’s University in New York and other institutions wanted to tease out why. To answer that question, they’d need to make some people angry. The investigators recruited 280 healthy young adults and randomized them into four groups: a control group that counted out loud for eight minutes and maintained a neutral emotional state, and groups who recalled events that made them angry, sad or anxious. Before they began, and at intervals for 100 minutes afterward, the researchers took blood samples and measurements of blood flow and pressure.

Source: Yahoo