Bianca Raffaelli
ORCID: 0000-0001-9758-1494
· 5 papers in corpus
2026
INTRODUCTION: Infertility represents a global health concern and assisted reproductive technologies expose an increasing number of women and men to intensive hormonal interventions. At the same time, migraine and other headache disorders ar…
2025
Migraine affects women three times more often than it does men, and various mechanisms may explain this incidence, including the key role of female sex hormones. Fluctuations in the levels of these hormones and their feedback control regula…
2024
Background and aimMigraine is a common disabling conditions which, globally, affects 15.2% of the population. It is the second cause of health loss in terms of years lived with disability, the first among women. Despite being so common, it …
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2021
OBJECTIVE: Migraine, endometriosis, and the comorbidity of both are frequent pain disorders of special relevance for women. The neuropeptide calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is critically involved in migraine, and circumstantial evide…
2018
BackgroundThe three primary headaches, tension-type headache, migraine and cluster headache, occur in both genders, but all seem to have a sex-specific prevalence. These gender differences suggest that both male and female sex hormones coul…