Nation IN BRIEF : NATIONWIDE : Don’t Get Even, Get Mad, Scientist Says

Women who do not show the anger they feel could be making a deadly mistake, a researcher believes. A survey of 372 women found that those who habitually suppressed high levels of anger were three times more likely to die than those who did not, Mara Julius of the University of Michigan School of Public Health reported. Women studied ranged between 30 and 69 in 1971. Julius tracked their mortality rates through 1989. To determine the levels of their anger and how they showed it, Julius asked the study participants to describe how angry they would feel if their spouses yelled at them for something they did not do or if a policeman did the same thing.