DOI: 10.1097/01.NT.0000428469.52234.29
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Issn Print: 1533-7006
Publication Date: 2013/03/07
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Migraine with aura has been previously linked with increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). But the relative contribution of migraine with aura to future CVD events has remained unclear. Now, a new study led by Tobias Kurth, MD, ScD, who is a director of research at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) as well as associate epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and colleagues, may shed some light on this question. The complete data from this study will be presented at AAN annual meeting in March.
“We tend to think that major risk factors such as hypertension and smoking play a larger role than migraine with aura in contributing to cardiovascular disease,” Dr. Kurth told Neurology Today in a telephone interview. In our study, “we looked at the absolute contributions to the incident rates of cardiovascular disease, and we found that migraine with aura is actually one of the strongest relative contributors. It came ahead of diabetes, current smoking, obesity, and family history of early heart disease.”
According to these findings, he said, having a history of migraine with aura is not something that we should ignore or take lightly when evaluating vascular risk profiles.
