The hypothesis that intense anger experience may increase risk for or exacerbate
cardiovascular diseases has been under active theoretical and empirical interest for …

A meta-analysis of 15 studies was conducted to investigate the relationship between trait
anger and ambulatory blood pressure. Overall, the experience of anger was significantly …

Objective Anger expression is a dimension of anger that may be strongly related to coronary
heart disease and stroke. To date few cohort studies have evaluated the role of anger …

While studies from diverse fields of research suggest a relationship between problems
expressing anger and cardiovascular illness, few studies have provided a potential …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) comprises diseases of the heart and the circulatory system,
of which coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke are major clinical end points. CVD is the …

Objective It has long been thought that anger is important in the development of essential
hypertension. However, tests of this hypothesis have yielded conflicting findings. This study …

More than a half-century ago, Franz Alexander postulated that the suppression of anger was
a major contributor to the etiology of hypertension and coronary heart disease (CHD) …

This study compared a questionnaire method to an interview method of anger assessment in
predicting reactivity to a stressor and explored possible associations between anger …

Objective To investigate comparative models that could clarify the relationship between
ways of anger expression and blood pressure (BP). It was hypothesized that the impact of …

Cardiovascular reactivity (CVR) to stressful stimuli is predictive of future development of
cardiovascular disease (CVD). Anger appears to be an important mediator of this …