Optimistic Attitude Can Reduce Risk of Heart Disease in Men
October 1st, 2009
Researchers at the Department of Veterans Affairs and the School of Public Health at Harvard have linked a more optimistic outlook in older men with a dramatically reduced risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). The recent study examined the effects of an optimistic versus pessimistic way of explaining events on the incidence of heart attack, angina and fatal CHD among older men.
Study participants with the highest levels of optimism accounted for less than half the number of cases of angina, nonfatal and fatal heart attacks during the course of the study when compared to pessimistic participants.
During the ten-year span of the study 162 out of 1,306 participants developed CHD. Of those, 34 of the cases were from optimists and 77 from pessimists; the remaining 51 cases were among participants ranked as having an explanatory style that was neither strongly optimistic nor pessimistic.
Some 1,306 Boston area men from the Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study (NAS) participated in the research.
The researchers also noted that optimism has been linked in the past to an increased likelihood of engaging in healthy behaviors, although these behaviors did not explain the relationship between optimism and CHD in this study. Optimism has also been linked to higher levels of positive emotions and more positive social interactions.
“Most of the evidence for the notion that ‘thinking positively’ is good for your health has been anecdotal - this study provides some of the first hard medical evidence for this idea in the arena of heart disease,” says Laura Cubzansky, Assistant Professor of Health.
“We found that men who view the world more optimistically had half the risk of coronary heart disease relative to more pessimistic men. Thinking positively is more than simply avoiding negative emotions. We found that the power of positive thinking held even after consideration of both negative emotions and health behaviors like smoking.”
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