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Could an outburst of rage harm your heart? Earlier studies suggest a connection between sudden anger and a seriously higher risk of myocardial infarction or heart attack, which is the number one killer of humans all over the world.
Curious researchers from Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Yale School of Medicine, St. John’s University in New York, and other institutions delved into the underlying mechanisms to put the previous studies to the test.
Their experiment involved deliberately making the participants of a group throw tantrums of anger. They selected 280 healthy young adults and divided them into four groups: a control group tasked with counting aloud for eight minutes to maintain a neutral emotional state, and groups instructed to recall events evoking anger, sadness, or anxiety. Before the experiment and periodically over 100 minutes afterwards, the researchers took blood samples and measured blood flow and pressure.
The results, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, concluded that anger might indeed damage the heart by compromising blood vessel function.
