Men Who Hold in Work Anger Double Heart Attack Risk

Baack · Nov 24, 2009

Walking away or letting things pass may be an unhealthy way to deal with unfair treatment on the job, research from Sweden shows.
Men who reported using such "covert" coping strategies were more than twice as likely to have a heart attack or die from heart disease over the next 10 years, Dr. Constanze Leineweber of the Stress Research Institute at Stockholm University and her colleagues found.
Previous investigations have linked covert coping with job conflict to heart disease risk factors, but not heart disease itself, Leineweber and her team note in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
To investigate further, they looked at 2,755 men participating in a workplace study in Stockholm. Their average age was 41, and none had suffered a heart attack previously. The men enrolled in the study between 1992 and 1995. By 2003, a review of Swedish national records showed that 47 had either suffered a heart attack or died from heart disease.
Overall, the researchers found, men who reported using covert strategies to cope with conflict or unfair treatment were at about double the risk of heart attack or heart-related death.
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Ducks · Nov 24, 2009

If releasing anger and hostility prevents heart attacks, my husband will NEVER have heart problems. He has absolutely no problem expressing his frustrations.

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