William Atkins
Monday, 09 March 2009 19:14
Science -
Health
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The Tindle team found that black women had even greater chance to die from coronary heart disease if they were pessimistic than the overall group of women.
And, black women also had a greater chance to die if they were hostile/distrustful of others than the overall group of women.
Tindle, who is also a clinical research scholar with the University of Pittsburgh Clinical Traanslational Science Institute and the Pittsburgh Mind Body Center, stated within the MedicalNewsToday.com article
Optimists Live Longer Say Researchers,
"After taking into account a woman's degree of cynical hostility, the health effects of optimism did not change. A woman's degree of optimism did not change the health effects of cynical hostility.”
The research team stated that their conclusions have not been proven to be valid and not medically established to be true.
However, they did say that their study shows an apparent link between personality and longevity and disease.
What they don’t know yet is whether optimism and trustfulness leads to a longer life possibly due to an extraneous cause, such as the leading of a healthier life, less stress in one’s life, or other such reason.
Page four adds comments from Dr. Tindle.
