In a new study published in the journal BMC Public Health, researchers found that patients with coronary heart disease who were more pessimistic were more likely to die from the condition than those with lower levels of pessimism. The research team that was led by Dr. Mikko Pänkäläinen of Päijät-Häme Central Hospital in Finland found that high levels of optimism did not protect patients against coronary heart disease.

"High levels of pessimism have previously been linked to factors that affect cardiac health, such as inflammation, but data on the connection between risk of death from CHD and optimism and pessimism as personality traits are relatively scarce," Dr. Pänkäläinen notes.

"Levels of pessimism can be measured quite easily, and pessimism might be a very useful tool together with other known risk factors such as diabetes, hypertension or smoking to determine the risk of CHD-induced mortality." Dr. Mikko Pänkäläinen

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