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Women 'Feel Pain More Than Men'
from the Telegraph (UK)
While it is sometimes said men can't take pain as well as women, because they don't go through childbirth, researchers found that not to be the case.
When they looked at the pain scores of more than 72,000 patients, across 47 common health problems, they discovered that on average women reported feeling more pain in 39 of them.
Atul Butte from Stanford University in the US, the senior author of the study, said: "We saw higher pain scores for female patients practically across the board. "In many cases, the reported difference approached a full point on the one-to-10 scale."
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