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cardiovascular disease

There’s been a lot of conversation about last month’s report on a genotype known as methyleneterahydrofolate reductase, or MTHFR 677TT.  If you’ve read any of the reports, you may be as confused as I was at first, but let’s take a closer look. There has been a lot of research into the connection between stroke [...]

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Is there a link between cardiovascular disease and migraine?  Today’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) contains a report on a study that investigated the subject.  The conclusion was yes.  Those women (no men in this study, sorry) suffering from migraine with aura have a 2.15x better chance of having an [...]

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Cardiovascular disease and migraine

by James on 26 June 2006

The connection between cardiovascular disease and migraine – how far does it go?  We’ve talked here before about the connection between migraine and stroke, the connection between migraine and the heart defect known as Patent Foramen Ovale, and so on.  E.N. Liberopoulos and D.P. Mikhailidis have suggested another possible connection for treatment purposes, and they’re [...]

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