Angry outbursts can break the heart
13th March 2015
An Australian retrospective study of 313 patients with angiographically confirmed coronary occlusion on emergency admission to Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney found that episodes of intense anger in the preceding two hours were associated with an 8.5-fold increase in AMI risk.
Recovering AMI patients, with a mean age of 58 and predominantly male (85%), were surveyed about their feelings in the two hours prior to symptom onset. Anger episodes measured on a seven-point “anger chart” that began at level 1