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The article examines the relationship between work stress as defined according to the Effort-Reward Imbalance Model and painful menstruation in Hungary. It explores the association between work stress and dysmenorrhea using logistic regression based on data of 821 pre-menopausal and not pregnant women from the Hungarostudy Epidemiological Panel 2006. It found that previous miscarriage, smoking, body-mass index, physical activity and depressive symptoms effort-reward imbalance were associated with an increased risk of menstrual pain.

Objective: This study aimed to examine the association of a mother's loss of a close relative before or during pregnancy with intellectual disability (ID) in the offspring., Methods: We performed a nationwide population-based cohort study based on Danish national registries. All live-born singletons born in Denmark during the 1978-2016 period (n = 2,216,601) were followed up starting from birth to 38 years of age. Log-linear Poisson regression was used to estimate the association between maternal bereavement (the death of an older child, a partner, or a parent 1 year before or during pregnancy) and the risk of ID in the offspring., Results: Maternal bereavement during or before pregnancy was associated with an increased risk of ID (incidence rate ratio [IRR] = 1.15; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.04-1.28). The risk of ID was increased by 27% when maternal bereavement occurred during pregnancy (IRR = 1.27; 95% CI = 1.08-1.49). When stratifying on the child's sex, we also observed an increased risk of ID associated with maternal bereavement during pregnancy both for male (IRR = 1.25; 95% CI = 1.02-1.53) and for female (IRR = 1.31; 95% CI = 1.02-1.69), respectively. The IRRs for unnatural death of a relative were also elevated (IRR = 1.22; 95% CI = 0.91-1.64) in general, although the difference was not statistically significant., Conclusions: Our findings suggest that prenatal stress due to maternal loss of a close relative may increase the risk of offspring's ID of both sexes, in particular when the loss happened during pregnancy., (Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the American Psychosomatic Society.)