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Hormone link to asthma

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Testostero­ne helps to protect men from asthma, according to research that may explain why women are more likely to have the condition than men, and have more severe symptoms. Researcher­s from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne found that particular immune cells, called innate lymphoid cells, were suppressed in the presence of testostero­ne. These cells had already been linked to the developmen­t of asthma and the result may explain why at puberty, when boys produce a surge of the hormone, their asthma rates fall well behind those of girls the same age.

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