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Migraine and stroke: a male relationship

This information comes from two U.S. studies published in quick succession in international journals.
In the first, 20,000 men aged 20 to 84 years were recruited and followed for fifteen years. Each year, they answered a questionnaire about their health and especially on their cardiovascular status (stroke, myocardial infarction, coronary revascularization, angina pectoris). And 7% of them are reported migraine.
By comparison, the incidence of cardiovascular events was 10.4 per 10,000 migraine patients, as against 8.5 for non-migraineurs.
The researchers suggest that this phenomenon could be correlated with weight issues. But in this study, the relationship with the index of body mass is not checked.

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Migraines and memory: relationships women

This study involves women recruited in 1993 and having spent several series of cognitive tests throughout follow-up that spanned 25 years.
Within this group, women who had had migraine at baseline poorer test scores. However, over time, their performance has declined less compared to women without migraine. For example, women over 50 years and migraine showed higher performance than 17% of women without migraine the same age.
Again the researchers suggest hypotheses that need further checking. One is based on a possible protective effect of drugs used against migraine, such as ibuprofen. Others suggest that the lifestyle imposed in migraine (sleep, relaxation, no alcohol ...) exert a beneficial effect on memory function or a direct action on the cerebral vascular flow or on the activity brain.