Partner Sites         Wednesday, July 6, 2005   Delaware Coast Press Anger can be a heartbreaker By Alan Mozes HealthDay ON THE WEB for more on heart arrhythmias from the American Heart Association. The adrenaline released in outbursts of anger may place individuals with a history of irregular heartbeat at heightened risk for cardiac arrest, a new study suggests. Researchers at Yale University report that arrhythmias provoked by hostility are more hazardous than those associated with less volatile emotions. "You don't want to have any arrhythmia, but some are much more dangerous than others," said Dr. Matthew M. Stopper, the study's first author and an internal medicine specialist at Yale University School of Medicine, in New Haven. "Arrhythmias associated with anger tend to be less stable, which generally means that they are more lethal.

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