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New Study Sheds Light On Why Women Experience More Chronic Pain Than Men

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Olga Pankova/Moment/Getty ImagesIt’s a well-known fact in the medical community that when it comes to chronic pain, women are more likely to be affected by it than men. According to Harvard Medical School, roughly 70% of patients impacted by chronic pain are women, while 80% of studies done on chronic pain involve only male participants or male rats. As someone with chronic pain, I myself have been seated in a class for fibromyalgia sufferers and clocked just how many of them were women: every last one. So when a new study was published Friday that may have finally found a reason why this happ...