Angry outbursts are linked to increased risk of heart attack

Scientists have proven it's not good for your health to be rash in becoming angry.

Bottling up emotions is thought to harm both mind and body, but a new study suggests that doing the opposite may be no better.

In a study of nearly 4,000 heart attack patients, those who recalled having flown into a rage during the previous year were more than twice as likely to have had their heart attack within two hours of that episode, compared to other times during the year.

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The greater the fury — including throwing objects and threatening others — the higher the risk, Mostofsky’s team reported in the American Journal of Cardiology.

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