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Anger ‘increases risk of heart attack for 40 minutes’

1 May 2024

Professor Riyaz Patel (UCL Institute of Health Informatics) said the study was an “elegant experiment” finding that “recalling memories that evoke anger causes a temporary disruption in the usually healthy functioning of the blood vessels”.

Read: The Times (£); More: The Telegraph (£), New Scientist