Unpleasant People May Be More Prone to Stroke

Unpleasant People May Be More Prone to Stroke: People with antagonistic or disagreeable personalities have vascular abnormalities that may make them more prone to strokes and perhaps other cardiovascular events, researchers said. Carotid artery intima-media thickness, which is linked to stroke risk, was significantly greater in individuals who rated low on a scale of agreeableness. They also found that an antagonistic personality predicted increased thickening over approximately three years of follow-up. “Antagonistic individuals, especially those who are manipulative and aggressive, have greater increases in arterial thickening, independent of traditional cardiovascular risk factors. Hypertension, Aug. 2010