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Study Says Stay Calm and Halve Risk of Stroke
Pat Phillips
JAMA contributor
JAMA. 1998;279:1246-1248.
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MEN WHO EXPERIENCE outbursts of anger have twice the risk of stroke as men who control their tempers, according to a report described at the American Heart Association's (AHA) 70th Scientific Sessions in Orlando, Fla, in November as the first study to explore the relationship between anger and stroke.
Although blowing off steam can be hazardous to men's health, "the message of this study is not to suppress anger, but to manage anger so that it does not get to explosive levels," said Susan A. Everson, PhD, of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, lead investigator of the epidemiologic study.
The 7-year follow-up study examined the relationship between psychosocial behavior and stroke in 2110 men, whose average age was 53 years, drawn from the Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease Study in eastern Finland. The study took into account such risk factors for stroke as age, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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