Central Obesity (Risk Factors)
Anger, Hostility Linked to Central Obesity in White Women
Published in Women's Health Weekly, October 11th, 1999
K. Raikkonen, of the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and associates hypothesized that anger and hostility - factors associated with cardiovascular events, could predict central obesity, and they conducted a 13-year study on 157 white women to test this ("Anger, Hostility, and Visceral Adipose Tissue in Healthy, Postmenopausal Women," Metabolism, September 1999;48(9):1146-1151). Their study results supported their hypothesis.
Using standardized tests to measure trait anger, anger expression style, and hostile attitudes, Raikkonen et al. reported...
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