unhealthiness. anger can lead to high blood levels of a protein associated with cardiovascular disease.
anger is often spoken of as a disease; he fumed or festers and becomes inflamed. Now it seems that these terms can have a scientific basis in fact. A new study, angry people have high levels of a protein linked to inflammation, which may partly explain the higher risk of cardiovascular disease in the blood.
As the role of inflammation in heart disease emerged, scientists have found high levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) is a better indicator than high cholesterol cardiovascular disease. High CRP levels are also associated with depression. In addition, studies have shown that individuals angry (formerly known as "type A") or depression are at a higher risk of heart disease and stroke.
Psychiatry Professor Edward Suarez at Duke University brought together all these son studying anger, hostility, depression and CRP levels in 127 healthy elderly adults 18 and 65. He given all three test subjects: an inventory of depression on the scale of anger (measuring the emotional aspects of anger), and a scale of hostility (measuring attitudes such as ill will and perception of resentment). CRP levels were measured after overnight fasting.People with full infusion of negative emotions had CRP levels two to three times higher than the quieter subjects, more optimistic, says Suarez in the number of the month of Psychosomatic Medicine . The study adds to an emerging picture of how the changes induced by stress in the nervous system can trigger the immune system. The inflammatory responses rough lining of the arteries, making them more prone to accumulate plaque.Psychologist Janice Kiecolt-Glaser of Ohio State University in Columbus, who does research on emotions and disease, said the study provides " the first evidence linking CRP with anger and hostility. "But Marco Pahor, gerontologist at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, says the study does not prove cause and effect, and notes that further work is needed to determine if psychological factors contribute to inflammation-related disease.
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