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BOSTON, May 16 (UPI) -- Over time, those who find inner calm live longer, healthier lives, compared with those prone to high anxiety, found a U.S. study.
Highly anxious patients with heart disease face nearly double the risk of heart attack or death compared with those with a more serene outlook on life, according to the study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Dr. Charles M. Blatt of the Harvard Medical School recruited 516 patients with proven coronary artery disease and asked them about their feelings during the previous week -- whether they felt peaceful, felt something bad would happen, took a long time to fall asleep at night or had upset bowels or stomach. The study participants were questioned each year for three more years.
Those with anxiety scores in the highest one-third had nearly double the risk of heart attack or death when compared with those with anxiety scores in the lowest one-third, according to Blatt.
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