Your tweets may reflect your heart health, study finds

A new study found that what you put on social media may actually reflect your risk of heart disease and the findings spell bad news for those who are hostile on Twitter.

According to the study, conducted by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and published in the journal Psychological Science, there is a correlation between a person’s health and what they tweet.

Those who put out angry and hostile tweets are more likely to have higher rates of heart disease than those who do not, the study found.

ABC News noted that the team of researchers studied 140 million random tweets between 2009 and 2010 and found that negative emotions expressed through tweets were associated with higher heart disease risk. At the same time, those who expressed positive emotions on the micro-blogging site were associated with a lower risk.

"The single most predictive feature -- the single word predictor of heart disease -- is 'hate,'" said lead researcher Johannes Eichstaedt, a Ph.D. candidate at the university. "You couldn't make this up."

For those who don’t listen to warnings about what they put on Twitter and how it can affect their reputation, maybe now they will rethink their tweets because of how it can affect their health.