You may have heard that migraine occurs almost three times more often in women than in men. In this country, about 18 percent of women and about 6 percent of men suffer from these life-altering headaches. “There is a hormonal relationship between women and migraine,” says Stephen Silberstein, M.D., past president of the American Headache Society, professor of neurology at Thomas Jefferson University and director of the Jefferson Headache Center in Philadelphia. But, as most women can tell you, men and headaches do go together. “Men do not have the same fluctuations in hormones as women,” says Dr. Silberstein, but some do have migraines. “It’s their mothers,” he says. “Also, their fathers. It seems to be genetic.”
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