Male Anxiety and Heart Disease

Men diagnosed with anxiety in late teens, early 20s may be more likely to have heart disease later in life.
CNN /Health.com (6/22, Gardner) reports that "men diagnosed with anxiety in their late teens or early 20s are more than twice as likely to have heart disease or a heart attack later in life than their more laid-back peers, according to a" study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Researchers looked at data on nearly "50,000 Swedish men born between 1949 and 1951 who were undergoing medical examinations for military service." During a 37-year follow-up, researchers found that "people with anxiety had more than double the risk of heart disease and two-and-a-half times the risk of suffering a heart attack."