New Delhi. Conducting a workshop on Stress Prevention, on the second day, Dr KK Aggarwal, President, Heart Care Foundation of India said that even recall of anger is dangerous.

Anger recall causes sympathetic over activity. The resulting increased adrenaline and noradrenaline levels lead to plaque rupture and consequently a heart attack or myocardial infarction (MI). Anger recall is as bad as anger itself, which can be expressive or suppressive. Both are dangerous. Expressive anger causes plaque to rupture leading to heart attack or MI, while suppressive anger causes chronic sympathetic over activity that helps plaque formation.

The answer is anger management and not expression nor suppression of anger. Those people how get angry and are heart patients should not miss their aspirin dose as aspirin takes away the bad effects of anger.

The workshop was held as part of the two-day National Seminar on Stress Prevention - Workshop-cum-seminar on Stress Management and Prevention of Lifestyle Disorders -held at Om Shanti Retreat Centre, near Manesar. Others who spoke at the workshop included BK Shanti, BK Sapna and BK Brij Mohan from Om Shanti Retreat Centre.