How anger, stress can impact your heart health [Video]

Does it ever feel as if your anger courses through your veins? Well, that isn’t too far off, according to new research.

Feelings of anger adversely affect blood vessel health, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

“This study was meant to figure out, ‘why is that?’” he said.

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In the randomized trial, researchers divided 280 participants and gave them a task that made them recall feelings of anger, sadness, anxiety or neutrality for eight minutes.

Before and several times after the task, the researchers took measures of the individuals’ vascular health.

“There have been some studies in the past that have linked the feelings of anger, the feelings of anxiety and the feelings of sadness to heart disease risk in the future,” said lead study author …