Low anger Moderate anger Higher anger Total CHD 53 110 27 190
No CHD 3057 4621 606 8284
Total 3110 4731 633 8474
People who get angry easily tend to have more heart disease. That's the conclusion of a study that followed a random sample of 12,986 people from three locations for about four years. All subjects were free of heart disease at the beginning of the study. The subjects took the Spielberger Trait Anger Scale test, which measures how prone a person is to sudden anger. Here are the data fro the 8474 people in the sample who had normal blood pressure. CHD stands for "coronary heart disease." This includes people who had heart attacks and those who needed medical treatment for heart disease.
Do these data support the study's conclusion about the relationship between anger and heart disease?