A New Link Revealed Between Heart Disease and Men

Covert Coping Linked to Heart Disease

Men who use "covert coping" to deal with unfair treatment at work are putting their hearts at risk, a new study has found.

Covert coping means bottling up anger and frustration and not reacting to tormentors who unfairly treat men.

The study found that people who bottle up their feelings at work are more than twice as likely to develop heart problems.

Scientists in Stockholm, Sweden studied 2,755 men who had no signs of heart disease at baseline screenings between 1992 and 1995.

A follow up check in 2003 found that 47 participants had either died from ischemic heart disease or suffered a heart attack.

After making adjustments for age, socio-economic factors, job stress and medical problems from the original check, researchers found a close relationship between using "covert coping" and the risk of developing the heart problems.

The research, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, concluded that men who frequently used covert coping had a 2.29 times higher risk than those who reacted to aggressors.

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