Anger

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The Last Angry Man
Angry Hostile Men Can't Blame Testosterone
What to do with Your Anger

The Last Angry

Temper, temper, boys. Otherwise you may tell yourselves right into an early grave. According to a new study in Circulation, men with explosive personalities have a greater risk of having strokes or dying. Boston University researchers found that quick-tempered guys have a 10 percent better chance of developing an atrial fibrillation or irregular heartbeat - a stroke risk factor - than less volatile men; hotheads were also 20 percent more likely to die from any cause during the 10-year study. By the way, there was no increase in heart flutters in hostile women. Go figure.
Source: U.S. News & World Report, 3/15/04

Angry Hostile Men Can't Blame Testosterone

Angry, hostile men aren't suffering from excess testosterone, research shows.

They do suffer, however. It's well known that men who indulge in aggressive behavior are more likely to have heart disease and strokes. Why?

It's not because they have abnormal testosterone levels, find Maciej Tomaszewski, of the Medical University of Silesia in Zabrze, Poland, and colleagues. Tomaszewski's team analyzed physical and psychological data on 933 young, apparently healthy men.

The angriest men tended to be the most overweight. The most hostile men tended to have the lowest levels of "good" HDL cholesterol. Overall, the young men with a cluster of risks factors for diabetes and heart disease tended to be the most aggressive.

Testosterone had nothing to do with it. The most angry and hostile men had sex-hormone levels similar to those seen in the least aggressive men.

"Men with clustering of metabolic risk factors ... had significantly higher scores of total aggression than subjects with the opposite combination of body-mass index and HDL despite similar testosterone levels," Tomaszewski and colleagues write in the abstract of their presentation to this week's Scientific Sessions 2003 of the American Heart Association.

In plain language: Bullies tend to be overweight or obese -- and they are at risk of diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.
Source: Daniel DeNoon, American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2003, Orlando, Fla., my.webmd.com/content/Article/76/90280.htm?printing=true  

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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry. - Maxine Waters

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know home to be good. - Henry Ward Beecher

I have been waiting twenty years for someone to say to me: "You have to fight fire with fire" so that I could reply, "That's funny - I always use water." - Howard Gossage

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