@article {Leineweber420, author = {C Leineweber and H Westerlund and T Theorell and M Kivim{\"a}ki and P Westerholm and L Alfredsson}, title = {Covert coping with unfair treatment at work and risk of incident myocardial infarction and cardiac death among men: prospective cohort study}, volume = {65}, number = {5}, pages = {420--425}, year = {2011}, doi = {10.1136/jech.2009.088880}, publisher = {BMJ Publishing Group Ltd}, abstract = {Background Covert coping with unfair treatment at work{\textemdash}occurring when an employee does not show the {\textquotedblleft}aggressor{\textquotedblright} that he/she feels unfairly treated{\textemdash}has been found to be associated with cardiovascular risk factors. This study examined whether covert coping also predicts incident coronary heart disease.Methods A prospective cohort study (the WOLF Stockholm study) of workplaces in the Stockholm area, Sweden. The participants were 2755 men with no history of myocardial infarction at baseline screening in 1992{\textendash}1995. The main outcome measure was hospitalisation due to myocardial infarction or death from ischaemic heart disease until 2003 obtained from national registers (mean follow-up 9.8{\textpm}0.9 years).Results Forty-seven participants had myocardial infarction or died from ischaemic heart disease during follow-up. After adjustment for age, socioeconomic factors, risk behaviours, job strain and biological risk factors at baseline, there was a dose{\textendash}response relationship between covert coping and risk of incident myocardial infarction or cardiac death (p for trend=0.10). Men who frequently used covert coping had a 2.29 (95\% CI 1.00 to 5.29) times higher risk than those who did not use coping. Restricting the analysis to direct coping behaviours only strengthened this association (p for trend=0.02).Conclusions In this study, covert coping is strongly related to increased risk of hard-endpoint cardiovascular disease.}, issn = {0143-005X}, URL = {https://jech.bmj.com/content/65/5/420}, eprint = {https://jech.bmj.com/content/65/5/420.full.pdf}, journal = {Journal of Epidemiology \& Community Health} }