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July 2022 in “BMC Women s Health” An ovarian tumor can cause high male hormones in postmenopausal women.
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February 2017 in “Journal of gynecology and womens health” The document concluded that more research is needed to understand how estrogen affects the enzyme involved in hirsutism development.
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