Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data

Published work assessing psychosocial stress (job strain) as a risk factor for coronary heart disease is inconsistent and subject to publication bias and reverse causation bias. We analysed the relation between job strain and coronary heart disease with a meta-analysis of published and unpublished studies.We used individual records from 13 European cohort studies (1985-2006) of men and women without coronary heart disease who were employed at...