Emotionally stressful events, and more specifically, anger, immediately precede and appear to trigger the onset of acute myocardial infarction (MI) and other cardiovascular events. Outbursts of anger increase the risk of acute myocardial infarction, acute coronary syndrome, ischemic stroke, ruptured intracranial aneurysm, and ventricular arrhythmia. This was corroborated by a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the European Heart Journal, which found a higher risk of cardiovascular events in the 2h after outbursts of anger (Eur Heart J. 2014 Jun 1;35(21):1404-10).
An earlier study from Deaconess Hospital, Harvard Medical School published in the journal Circulation in 1995 had shown that episodes of anger are capable of triggering the onset of acute myocardial infarction and that this risk may be reduced by the use of aspirin (Circulation. 1995 Oct 1;92(7):1720-5). More than…
