ABSTRACT
Ever since the sudden deaths of Ananias and Saphira after being chastised by St. Peter—as described in the “Acts of the Apostles” in the New Testament of the Christian Bible—we have “known” that stress has the potential for profound effects on the heart. However, it was nearly 2,000 years later before two cardiologists, Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman, carried out epidemiological studies that pointed to a specific sort of stress—that experienced by persons with the Type A behavior pattern that prospectively confers increased risk of developing coronary heart disease (CHD) (1).
