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When many people think of an aneurysm (or aneurism), they think of a severe headache and severe danger.  Although aneurysms aren’t always like that, it is important to be aware of how headache and aneurysm can relate. An aneurysm is an abnormal ballooning or widening of an artery.  That means they can actually happen in [...]

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Another large study was just released confirming the link between migraine and heart disease.  If you have migraine, what do these studies mean for you?  What can you do about it? The most recent study was a large one, published last month in the online British Medical Journal.  And it focused on mortality.  People who suffer [...]

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A study from the Medical University of Graz, Austria found a certain group of people had a 7.93 fold increased risk of migraine.  Are you one of them?  And why? The interesting thing about the study was the type of testing that was done.  This wasn’t any kind of migraine test – it was a [...]

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Research continues to be published about the link between migraine and cardiovascular disease.  This one, published in the British Medical Journal, has to do with women who have migraine during pregnancy. Many women experience a remission of migraine during pregnancy.  However, many do not.  The pretty name for it is peripartum migraines, and they can [...]

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We know that migraine patients are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease.  But why?  In other words, what is happening to the body that is increasing the risk? A recent study took a step toward answering the question.  Published in the June 2009 issue of Neurology, the study of 12 migraineurs came out of Italy. [...]

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