How does inflammation affect health? Explain how personality factors are implicated in this relationship.

A good answer would include the following key points:
-Inflammation is increasingly believed to cause a long list of diseases, including heart disease, arthritis, and asthma.
-In heart disease, the elevated blood pressure caused by hostility damages and inflames the arteries, making it easier for fat and cholesterol deposits to collect at these injured places and block the arteries. When an artery becomes completely or mostly blocked and blood can no longer pass, a heart attack occurs.
-People with a Type A personality are likely to manifest the hostility facet of that personality type, which in turn leads to these bodily changes associated with poor health.