Emotions can play an important role in our health, and sometimes, these effects can have devastating effects on our bodies. Specialists in the United States have concluded that anger can increase the risk of heart attack or stroke, even by 40 minutes.
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According to the information from adevarul.ro, anger can be lethal for people. American experts analyzed data from 280 volunteers, with an average age of only 26 years. Study author Dr. Daichi Shimbo, professor of medicine at Columbia University, explained that anger leads to blood vessel dysfunction.
“We saw that evoking a state of anger led to blood vessel dysfunction. Although we do not yet understand what could be causing these changes”, he said. The phenomenon identified by experts would be an impairment of the dilation of blood vessels, a disturbance that could lead to a greater risk of heart attack or stroke.
Anger can be lethal to people
The 280 volunteers who took part in this study were told to relax for half an hour, during which they could not talk, use their mobile phones, sleep or read. The specialists then measured their blood pressure, then randomly assigned them 8-minute tasks. Some volunteers had to recall an experience that made them angry, while others had to recall a moment of anxiety or sadness.
Another task was emotionally neutral, and specialists checked blood pressure every 3 minutes, then 40, 70 and 100 minutes after the end of the task. Blood samples were also taken.
“Pregnancies that recalled past anger-inducing events resulted in impaired vasodilation from zero to 40 minutes post-pregnancy. The impairment was no longer present after 40 minutes. There were no statistically significant changes in the blood vessel lining of the participants at any time after experiencing the emotional tasks of anxiety and sadness”experts said.
