Learning Objectives

1. To understand the importance of anger in coronary heart disease (CHD) risk.
2. To identify major hypotheses explaining the anger-CHD association.
3. To become familiar with recent evidence of an association between anger and CHD from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study.

Performance Objectives

1. Conceptualize anger as a psychological risk factor for CHD.

     2.  Critique studies of anger-CHD for degree of convincing evidence for an association.