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Study is first to show that air pollutants increase risk of painful periods for women

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Now, for the first time, researchers from China Medical University Hospital in Taiwan have shown that long-term exposure to air pollutants such as nitrogen and carbon oxides and fine particulate matter greatly raises the risk of developing dysmenorrhea. They found that from 2000- to 2013, 4.2% µm in diameter (‘PM2.5’)