Verify: Can anger be linked to cardiovascular complications? [Video]

SAN ANTONIO — We’ve all heard that your mental and emotional health have a direct impact on your physical health. In this Verify, we find how being an angry person could have a serious detriment to your physical health. 

THE QUESTION

Could feeling angry for as little as eight minutes a day raise your risk of a cardiovascular event?

THE SOURCES

THE ANSWER

TRUE

WHAT WE FOUND

Dr. Vadlamani told us, “Certainly physiologically it makes sense that it would predispose you to certain things like heart attacks or strokes, ruptured aneurysms, etc., because it’s an acute spike in your blood pressure and, you know, an acute increase in your heart rate. Anything your body can’t adjust to quickly is usually harmful.”

The study in the Journal of the AHA looked …