The director of the study, Elaine Eaker, says: “There has been a perception that you can dissipate the negative health effects of anger by letting it out instead of bottling it up.... But that is definitely not the case in the men in this study ​ — they were at higher risk not only of atrial fibrillation, but of death from all causes. ”
यामुळे, एखाद्या व्यक्‍तीची कार्यक्षमता कमजोर होऊ शकते, ती चुका करू शकते व आजारीही पडू शकते, असे अभ्यासांवरून दिसून आले आहे.