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Anger and Heart Attacks A new study reported in the January, 2000, issue of the Journal of Health Psychology, provides growing support to the notion that anger in fact be one of the most powerful predictors of who is most likely to suffer a heart attack. Dr. Mark Ketterer with the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, says that the most likely cause of heart attacks is mental stress. As he says, most people don't have heart attacks when they are exercising. The study of 184 men and women measured a reduction in blood flow to the heart (ischemia) during exercise as compared to ischemia when people were put in situations that induced anger. Ketterer suspects that if you ask most people about their anger they tend to underestimate it. As a result, anger be a factor that many family physicians overlook. When their patients do admit to anger, the physicians generally suggest, "Well, try not to get so angry." Most of us don't like to describe ourselves as angry people, and when people are angry and if you ask them if they are angry, they many times will shout (in anger), "I'm not angry." And most people who get angry don't know how to "try to not get so angry." Awareness of anger and then learning to manage anger are probably two very useful emotional skills for people to master. And most people will need help to accomplish this. The alternative is to take antidepressants or antianxiety medication, a strategy that most people recognize as not the most effective. If you find yourself irritated a lot of the time, it be a good idea for you to seek some help! Good luck.
Janelle Barlow, Author
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