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Hostility May Affect Impact of Emotional Stress

Published in Women's Health Weekly, April 6th, 1998

Venting your feelings may not be good for your health after all, but only if you're already an anger-prone individual, according to a new study from Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.

Hostile women who described a real life event that made them angry had significant increases in blood pressure and heart rate. But women who scored low on a standard hostility scale showed no greater increases in heart rate or blood pressure during the emotional testimonial than if they were reading a factual account of Abraham Lincoln's life, the study found.

Duke behavioral psychologist Edward Suarez presented his study results at the Society of...

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