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Hostility and Heart Disease
Hostility and Heart Disease
Study focuses on ages 18 to 30. By Dr. Brian P. McDonough.
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If you are young and have a hot temper, or are someone who is very angry and hostile, you are at greater risk of having heart problems down the road. This is according to the recent study in the journal of the American Medical Association. The study looked at 374 white and black, men and women between the ages 18 and 30. They were followed over 10 years and among other things the coronary arteries were studied to see if they were calcified.
Those people who had hostility levels measured above average, by a true or false test, were nine times more likely to have calcified arteries. You might be wondering why calcified arteries are important. When the blood vessels that supply the heart have blockages, there is an increased risk of heart attack. The study shows increased risk at an early age.
I am Dr. Brian Mc Donough.