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You burn your tongue on your morning coffee, someone cut you off in traffic – a near collision! – and your wife is late to meet you yet again. You’re upset, irritated and ready to knock someone into next week.
OK, curb that anger. Count to 10 and take some deep breaths – for the sake of your heart. There’s a mounting body of research that pinpoints anger as a precursor to heart attack. We know it doesn’t feel good to lose our cool, but knowing that anger and heart disease are closely tied should be considered a red flag to put some anger management exercises and relaxation tips into practice.
The statistics on heart disease aren’t pretty. It’s the leading cause of death in men and women. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 610,000 Americans die from heart disease each year – that’s one in every four deaths. In the United States, someone has a heart attack every 43 seconds. To put it bluntly, each minute, someone in the United States dies from a heart disease-related event.