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" Being angry can have a detrimental effect on the health of your lungs, a US team of scientists has discovered.  According to research conducted through the long-term US Normative Ageing Study, longstanding anger in men can reduce lung function, particularly in old age. Loss of lung power is a normal part of ageing, but the study of 670 former military men, aged between 45 and 86, found that anger and hostility tended to speed up this aspect of ageing significantly.  In an attempt to explain the results, the researchers suggest that stress caused by anger tends to have a hormonal effect on the immune system, causing inflammation in the lungs.  Dr Paul Lehrer of the University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey, who led the research, said that, in this way, anger can be seen to alter the body&amp;#039;s responses, adding to general &amp;quot;wear and tear&amp;quot;.  However, Dr Lehrer also admitted that it wasn&amp;#039;t entirely clear if it was anger that was leading to poor health or the other way around.  &amp;quot;Personality, as well as physiology, can change over time, and deterioration in health and physical function can lead to negative emotion as well as vice versa, including for respiratory diseases,&amp;quot; he said.  \u00A9 Adfero Ltd "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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