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What has research shown about the relationship between hostility and heart disease?

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Hostility is a better predictor of coronary heart disease (CHD) in older men than a variety of other sociodemographic and physiological risk factors, including smoking, drinking, high caloric intake and high levels of LDL cholesterol, according to a new study published in Health Psychology
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Evidence that hostility is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease has been accumulating for longer than a decade.

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