When it comes to the heart, does it help to get things off your chest? How about a daily baby aspirin?

These two notions have people unleashing their stress and popping pills — and that may not be harmless.

A study from Australia shows intense feelings of anger can trigger a heart attack, even up to two hours later. This is most likely related to the surge of stress hormones, the rise in pulse and blood pressure, and constriction of the heart's blood vessels.

Police officers and parents after arguing with their children are just some of the patients a cardiologist at St. Clair Hospital has seen this happen to.

"If you're going to explode and yell at a boss, or a spouse or a child, if you can just breathe, and just count to 10, you might not say the things you want to say, and it would be better for you," St. Clair Hospital cardiologist Dr. Robert Shogry says.