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Sex hormones such as estrogen may be responsible for greater prevalence of migraines among women, as published in Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. Potential mechanisms for migraine causation to possibly explain why women experience more migraines than men is suggested by scientists to be sex hormones affecting cells around the trigeminal nerve and connected blood vessels …
Finding that concentrations of sex hormones may have a positive effect on the regenerative potential of cartilage tissue, German researchers suggest hormone replacement in the joint fluid may help treat the late stages of osteoarthritis. The World Health Organization estimates that worldwide, osteoarthritis affects 9.6% of men and 18% of women ages 60 years or …