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<p>Women laugh about &#8220;man flu&#8221; but the condition is no myth, scientists have learned.</p>
<p>A study found work stress increased the likelihood of men &#8211; but not women &#8211; complaining of sore throats and sniffles.</p>
<p>One explanation given for the finding was that men tended to &#8220;overrate&#8221; the severity of cold and flu symptoms. Women, on the other hand, were more likely to adopt a &#8220;stoical&#8221; attitude and soldier on in silence.</p>
<p>The South Korean researchers wrote in the journal Occupational Medicine: &#8220;Any association between work-related stress and the common cold may be accentuated in males by their reaction to experiencing a cold and attenuated in females by their more stoical response.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Man flu&#8221; is defined by the Wiktionary online dictionary as &#8220;a cold or similar ailment as suffered by a male seen as wildly exaggerating the severity of his symptoms&#8221;.</p>
<p>The scientists studied 1,200 manual workers from 40 different companies in Incheon, South Korea.</p>
<p>They found that men with demanding jobs were 74% more likely to report having cold symptoms than those under less pressure.</p>
<p>The chances of being ill were raised by 42% among men with &#8220;insufficient job control&#8221; and by 40% among those with &#8220;inadequate social support&#8221;.</p>
<p>However the researchers could find no significant association between stress factors and cold complaints among women.</p>
<p>In the UK, stress and depression are the biggest long-term cause of work absenteeism, affecting a quarter of all employees.</p>
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