Title: Don't exercise angry<br/>Author: Brian Corwell<br/><a href='http://umem.org/profiles/faculty/294/'>[Click to email author]</a><hr/><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:20.25pt;vertical-align:
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        <span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:">Many of us use exercise as a coping strategy when emotionally stressed or to blow off steam when angry. This may place your heart at risk.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:">A recent observational study in <em>Circulation</em> surveyed 12,000 first MI patients about potential triggers. The associations didn't depend on age, smoking status, hypertension, or baseline physical activity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:">Anger or emotional upset in the hour before onset elevated odds of MI 2.44 fold<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:">A similar 2.31 fold elevation was observed form heavy exertion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:">However, the combination of the two raised the odds to 3.05 fold (P<0.001 for interaction)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/134/15/1059</p>
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