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Experts Available to Discuss: Anger Can Trigger Abnormal Heart Rhythms
Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, March 15th, 2009
ExpertSource: TOPIC: Recalling anger may be enough to trigger abnormal heart rhythms in people with heart disease and implantable heart defibrillators (ICDs), according to an article published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. ICDs detect dangerous, abnormal heart rhythms and deliver an electrical shock to return the patient to a normal heart beat. Dr. Rachel Lampert, the cardiologist who led the Yale study, found that anger appeared to increase electrical instability in these patients. The 62 participants were followed over the next three years. Those patients who had the highest levels of electrical instability, which was caused by feelings of anger, were 10 times...
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