Are you short-tempered? Could have Lung problems

A new study has found that young people who are short-tempered are more prone to lung problems. The researchers have found a correlation between levels of hostility and impaired lung function in young people.

Lead author and psychologist Dr Benita Jackson, from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, said, "What's really remarkable (is that) some of the associations were greater than being a current smoker."

Newswise wire reported that people who are always angry and live in hostility has high blood pressure and also there is increase chances of a man or woman having another health problem such as depressiondefine, heart attack or stroke.

The study was conducted on a group of 4,629 men and women (Black and white) aged 18 to 30 from four metropolitan areas - Minneapolis, Minn., Birmingham, Ala., Chicago, Ill., and Oakland, Calif.

The subjects were asked to fill up the standard psychological questionnaire which tests them on anger and depression. They also also made to blew into a machine which tested how much “puff” they had, a measure of lung capacity. As a general trend, the more hostile an individual’s personality was, the worse his or her lungs performed.

Dr Benita Jackson said, “Recent research demonstrates that greater hostility predicts lung function decline in older men. This is the first study of young adults to offer a detailed examination of the inverse link between hostility and pulmonarydefine function.

"It's remarkable to see reductions in lung function during a time of life we think of as healthy for most people," Jackson said.