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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 common [...]

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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.

Basically, the [...]

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Men with migraine have heart attack risk

by James on 23 November 2006

It’s another study on the link between migraine and heart disease.  But this one is especially interesting because it’s a study of men.  Since men are statistically less likely to have migraine than women, there are less studies out there.
This particular study was presented at the 2006 meeting of the American Heart Association in Chicago. [...]

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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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