The 1 Thing You Can Do To Reduce Your Risk of Having A Stroke TODAY!

We all know what happens emotionally when you lose your temper. But what happens physically, to your heart? 

A new research study did a clever thing, and reviewed the cases of over 13,000 stroke patients in 2 countries as part of the INTERSTROKE study. They wanted to see what happened just before the stroke (within one hour), to see if there were any patterns that popped out. 

They discovered that 1 in 11 survivors experienced a period of anger or upset in the 1 hour leading up to the stroke.

Anger’s not benign,

for body nor the mind. 

Why This Is So Good To Know

The statistics are staggering. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that someone has a stroke every 40 seconds and someone dies of stroke every four minutes. This is among almost 800,000 people in the US who have a stroke every year. 

There are long term lifestyle factors that affect your risk, but we all know these — eat well, eat in control, be active, practice stress management, reduce high blood pressure, obesity, smoking, etc. 

But this new research shows what’s linked to a potentially life-threatening cerebral stroke from just 1 hour before! In fact, these results suggested that anger could increase your risk of stroke by 30% in the hour after that strong emotional upset occurs. 

“Acute anger or emotional upset was associated with the onset of all stroke, ischemic stroke, and ICH (intracerebral bleeding), while acute heavy physical exertion was associated with ICH only,” the authors wrote. It didn’t matter what region the subjects lived in, their prior cardiovascular disease history, other risk factors, cardiovascular medications, time or day of symptom onset. 

Your Take-Home Message

Of course, you should still practice the long term lifestyle approach: eat well, move more, and practice mindfulness in your everyday life. But knowing that anger outbursts could be life-threatening is a wakeup call for those we love to manage those kinds of outbursts.

Say it with me:  Anger’s not benign, for body nor the mind. 

SOURCE article is here.