AV Clip 13: Anger and Heart Disease AV 13 Anger and Heart.mp4 Watch the video clip three times and complete the following passage by filling in each blank with the word from the video clip. Evidence continues to mount that strong emotions can contribute to sudden (1) _______ arrest. But precisely how anger, shock or sadness might harm the heart remains unclear. New research suggests that (2) _________ emotion might directly alter the heart’s electrical stability. Researchers from Yale University studied 62 patients who had (3) _________ pace-maker devices to treat their heart disease. They asked the participants to record a time when they felt angry and tracked any changes in patients’ heart function. They found that anger triggered (4) _______ in heart’s electrical waves and that some people had a bigger reaction than others. Over the next year people who had had the stronger (5) ________ to anger were eight times as likely to need a shock from their pace-maker to restore a proper heart (6) ________. Doctors theorize that a rush of adrenalin response may cause the electrical (7) ________. Staying calm helps reduce the adrenalin response so experts recommend using (8) ________ techniques including deep breathing and non-stressful exercises such as yoga or working to manage angry emotions.