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Testosterone May Help Protect Men From Asthma

Women are more likely to have asthma than men. One possible reason? Testosterone could block a protein that helps spark an asthma attack, a study finds, while estrogen may not.
Boys are more likely to have asthma than girls, but that flips after puberty. Researchers suspect that sex hormones are a factor.

Women are more likely to have asthma than men, and though sex hormones have been suspected as one reason why, just how they might be affecting asthma risk has been something of a mystery.

Testosterone may help protect men against asthma, according to a published Tuesday in The scientists looked at a

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