Jaroslav Flegr

ORCID: 0000-0002-0822-0126 · 2 papers in corpus · active 2017-2019

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  • other 1

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  • endometriosis 1
other 2019
Scientific reports ·doi:10.1038/s41598-019-54662-5

About 1-2% of people of European origin have red hair. Especially female redheads are known to suffer higher pain sensitivity and higher incidence of some disorders, including skin cancer, Parkinson's disease and endometriosis. Recently, an…

2017
PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0190238

Red hair is associated in women with pain sensitivity. This medical condition, and perhaps others, seems facilitated by the combination of being red-haired and female. We tested this hypothesis by questioning a large sample of Czech and Slo…