Person-related work and the risk of type 2 diabetes: a Swedish register-based cohort study.

Objectives: Person-related work requires workers to interact with individuals not employed at the workplace, such as clients and patients, and can cause emotional labour and conflict. These stressors may increase workers' risk of type 2 diabetes, but their impact may differ depending on the level of support received from colleagues. We aimed to examine the association between person-related work and the risk of type 2 diabetes, and the effect modification of social support at work.

Person-related work and the risk of cardiovascular disease: a Swedish register-based cohort study.

Person-related work requires interaction with individuals not employed at the workplace, such as clients and patients, and can result in emotional labour, emotional demands, and confrontation. These stressors may increase workers' risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), including coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke, whereas colleagues' support may help buffer their impact. We aimed to examine the association between person-related work and the risk of CVD, and effect modification of social support at work.

The role of job strain in the relationship between depression and long-term sickness absence: a register-based cohort study.

Purpose: Though individuals with depression and those with poor working conditions are more likely to be on long-term sickness absence (LTSA), less is known about how working conditions may modify the associations between depression status and LTSA. This study aims to examine the association between depression and LTSA among Swedish workers with different levels of job strain and its individual components (job demands and job control).

Methods: All Swedish workers 30 - 60 years old (N = 3,065,258) were studied in 2005.

Ca affects the hyphal differentiation to sclerotia formation of .

RNA-Sequencing (RNA-Seq) and transcriptomic analyses have become powerful tools to study the developmental stages of fungal structures scuh as sclerotia. While RNA-Seq experiments have been set up for many important sclerotia- and microsclerotia-forming fungi, it has not been implemented to study , which is one of the earliest fungi used in literature to uncover the roles of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in stimulating sclerotia formation. This study applied RNA-Seq to profile gene expression in four developmental stages of sclerotia.

Diagnoses of common mental disorders among social workers in Sweden: A register-based cohort study.

Background: Little is known about common mental disorders (CMD) diagnoses among social workers, i.e., depression, anxiety, or stress-related disorders.

The role of working conditions in educational differences in all-cause and ischemic heart disease mortality among Swedish men.

Objectives: This study aims to investigate the extent to which low job control and heavy physical workload in middle age explain educational differences in all-cause and ischemic heart disease (IHD) mortality while accounting for important confounding factors.

Methods: The study is based on a register-linked cohort of men who were conscripted into the Swedish military at around the age of 18 in 1969/1970 and were alive and registered in Sweden in 2005 (N=46 565). Cox proportional hazards regression models were built to estimate educational differences in all-cause and IHD mortality and the extent to which this was explained by physical workload and job control around age 55 by calculating the reduction in hazard ratio (HR) after adjustments.

The impact of COVID-19 related adversity on the course of mental health during the pandemic and the role of protective factors: a longitudinal study among older adults in The Netherlands.

Purpose: Many studies report about risk factors associated with adverse changes in mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic while few studies report about protective and buffering factors, especially in older adults. We present an observational study to assess protective and buffering factors against COVID-19 related adverse mental health changes in older adults.

Methods: 899 older adults (55 +) in the Netherlands were followed from 2018/19 to two pandemic time points (June-October 2020 and March-August 2021).

Association of depression with mortality in nationwide twins: The mediating role of dementia.

Background: The differential impact of depression across different periods in life on mortality remains inconclusive. We aimed to examine the association of depression that occurs at different age with all-cause mortality, and to explore the roles of dementia, as well as genetic and early-life environmental factors, in this association.

Methods: From the Swedish Twin Registry, 44,919 twin individuals were followed for up to 18 years.

Association of Sleep Duration, Napping, and Sleep Patterns With Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases: A Nationwide Twin Study.

Background Although sleep disorders have been linked to cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), the association between sleep characteristics and CVDs remains inconclusive. We aimed to examine the association of nighttime sleep duration, daytime napping, and sleep patterns with CVDs and explore whether genetic and early-life environmental factors account for this association. Methods and Results In the Swedish Twin Registry, 12 268 CVD-free twin individuals (mean age=70.

Association of life-course traumatic brain injury with dementia risk: A nationwide twin study.

Introduction: The impact of life-course traumatic brain injury (TBI) on dementia is unclear.

Methods: Within the Swedish Twin Registry (STR), 35,312 dementia-free twins were followed for up to 18 years. TBI history was identified via medical records.

Coping with COVID: risk and resilience factors for mental health in a German representative panel study.

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic might affect mental health. Data from population-representative panel surveys with multiple waves including pre-COVID data investigating risk and protective factors are still rare.

Methods: In a stratified random sample of the German household population ( = 6684), we conducted survey-weighted multiple linear regressions to determine the association of various psychological risk and protective factors assessed between 2015 and 2020 with changes in psychological distress [(PD; measured via Patient Health Questionnaire for Depression and Anxiety (PHQ-4)] from pre-pandemic (average of 2016 and 2019) to peri-pandemic (both 2020 and 2021) time points.

Mental health and perceived impact during the first Covid-19 pandemic year: A longitudinal study in Dutch case-control cohorts of persons with and without depressive, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorders.

Background: Little is known about the longer-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic beyond the first months of 2020, particularly for people with pre-existing mental health disorders. Studies including pre-pandemic data from large psychiatric cohorts are scarce.

Methods: Between April 2020 and February 2021, twelve successive online questionnaires were distributed among participants of the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety, Netherlands Study of Depression in Older Persons, and Netherlands Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Association Study (N = 1714, response rate 62%).

Psychosocial factors and cancer incidence (PSY-CA): Protocol for individual participant data meta-analyses.

Objectives: Psychosocial factors have been hypothesized to increase the risk of cancer. This study aims (1) to test whether psychosocial factors (depression, anxiety, recent loss events, subjective social support, relationship status, general distress, and neuroticism) are associated with the incidence of any cancer (any, breast, lung, prostate, colorectal, smoking-related, and alcohol-related); (2) to test the interaction between psychosocial factors and factors related to cancer risk (smoking, alcohol use, weight, physical activity, sedentary behavior, sleep, age, sex, education, hormone replacement therapy, and menopausal status) with regard to the incidence of cancer; and (3) to test the mediating role of health behaviors (smoking, alcohol use, weight, physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep) in the relationship between psychosocial factors and the incidence of cancer.

Methods: The psychosocial factors and cancer incidence (PSY-CA) consortium was established involving experts in the field of (psycho-)oncology, methodology, and epidemiology.

Association of cardiovascular risk burden with risk of dementia and brain pathologies: A population-based cohort study.

Introduction: The impact of cardiovascular risk burden on brain pathologies remains unclear. We aimed to examine the association of the Framingham General Cardiovascular Risk Score (FGCRS) with dementia risk, and brain pathologies.

Methods: Within the Rush Memory and Aging Project, 1588 dementia-free participants were assessed on FGCRS at baseline and followed up to 21 years.

Association of life satisfaction with disability-free survival: role of chronic diseases and healthy lifestyle.

Background: this article investigates the association between life satisfaction and disability-free survival, and explores the roles of chronic diseases and healthy lifestyle in this association.

Method: a cohort of 2,116 functionally independent adults aged ≥60 was followed up to 12 years. At baseline, life satisfaction was assessed with the Life Satisfaction Index A (LSI-A).