Anger slows healing process after injury
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PARIS (AFP) - The adage that laughter is the best medicine has been backed by an unusual investigation which says that people who seethe with anger take longer to recover from injury.
Previous studies have linked ill tempered behaviour, whether brow-beating or road rage, with higher incidence of coronary heart disease, hypertension and stroke, especially among men.
But the new study, published on Wednesday in the British journal Brain, Behaviour, Immunity, is the first controlled experiment that directly measures the impact of ire on the healing process.e
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on March 18th, 2008 at 4:31 AM'
[…] at the moment you might want to learn to hide or control your angry side. I read about this over at Multidays: it’s the first controlled experiment to measure how long angry people take to recover from […]