A Penn study has shown a correlation between a person's tweets and their rates of coronary heart disease.
According to the study, because hostile communities can lead people to drink more, have relatively poor diets and spend more time alone — all of which lead to heart disease — people that are exposed to negative tweets become more susceptible to heart disease.
Though this correlation has been found, researchers emphasize that this is not a causal relationship.
Read more about the study here.
Correction: This post has been updated to reflect that, in contrast to the Technical.ly Philly article from which the DP's information was received, the study did not indicate that twitter led to health problems, and only showed a correlation between tweets and coronary heart disease.
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