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Anxiety Hikes Heart Attack Risk, New Research Found

Yessi Pratiwi — January 15, 2008 / 11:14 pm

New research shows that longstanding anxiety markedly increases the risk of heart attack.

Biing-Jiun Shen, Ph.D. (an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles) explained, besides blood pressure, obesity, cholesterol, age, cigarette smoking, blood sugar levels and other cardiovascular risk factors, the role of anxiety in hiking heart attack risk also goes beyond the effects of depression, anger, hostility, Type A behavior and other negative emotions.

Shen with the researcher analyzed data from the Normative Aging Study, which was designed to assess medical and psychological changes associated with aging among a group of initially healthy men, examining four different measures of anxiety. The investigators found that men who tested at the highest 15th percentile on any of the four anxiety scales, as well as on a scale combining all four, faced an increase in the risk of heart attack of approximately 30 to 40 percent.

Adapted from materials provided by American College of Cardiology.

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