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. 2021 Mar 10;10:72. doi: 10.1186/s13643-021-01618-4
Population

• Menstruating women with menstrual or chronic migraine

• Postmenopausal women with chronic migraine

• Pregnant women with history of migraines

• Transgender men and women with history of migraine

Intervention

• Estradiol (injection, percutaneous, etc.)

• Hormone replacement therapy

• GnRH agonists

• Oral contraceptives

Comparison

• Women with non-hormonal chronic migraine

• Women with non-menstrual intermittent migraine

Outcomes

• Migraine frequency

• Migraine severity

• Headache index*

• Delay of menstrual migraine

• Onset of migraine relative to menstrual cycle

*Headache index is a metric for headache frequency, severity, and duration