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LEICESTER, England, May 3, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Men share the blame with hormones when women suffer adverse effects of premenstrual syndrome, a British researcher says.
"What actually causes the symptoms is a combination of factors -- what's happening in your body and what's happening in the environment," University of Leicester researcher Jane Ussher told the London Daily Mail.
"Men certainly play a significant role in PMS and can play a very significant role in women's depression and anger at that time of the (menstrual) cycle," Ussher said.
Supportive men can ease PMS symptoms but unsympathetic men make them worse, she said.
"A classic case of PMS is a woman who's working full-time, looking after everyone at home, shopping after work, picking up the kids from school, finding very little space for herself," the researcher said.
Ussher reached the conclusions by comparing heterosexual and lesbian couples in Britain and Australia. She found fewer PMS problems in lesbian relationships.
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