“Migraine, female hormones, and stroke” The title of this work suggests three different topics (migraine and female hormones, migraine and stroke, female hormones and stroke), each of which would merit a study on its own. Taking female hormones as the connecting thread, however, I decided to review their relationships with migraine and stroke, using as examples a few selected points, such as the sex ratio of these two conditions and the influence that oral contraceptives, pregnancy, menopause and hormone replacement therapy has upon them. I will deal briefly with migraine and expand on stroke.
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