It seems like common sense, but now researchers have verified it.
Angry people have a greater risk for heart attacks.
Researchers studied a group of more than a thousand men and found that those who showed symptoms of anger were more likely to develop heart disease than those who weren't angry. The doctors measured the patients' anger by having them fill in a survey describing their feelings. The kind of anger the researchers noticed in this study wasn't just a mild irritation. It was the kind of anger that makes people feel like exploding, or that makes them want to hurt people. Extreme anger like this sets off the body's fight or flight mechanism, which releases certain hormones into the bloodstream.