Do you suffer from migraines? This means you are at a higher risk of getting heart disease.

Recently, employees of the Sunchunghyang University Hospital in Bucheon in South Korea examined data from the Korean

National Health Insurance Service for people with and without migraine. It turned out that those who suffered from migraine attacks were more likely to develop cardiovascular diseases. Discuss

Seung-Jae Lee, MD and Dr.philosophy from the Sunchunghyang University Hospital in Bucheon in South Korea, together with colleagues, conducted an analysis of the development of cardiovascular diseases in people with and without migraine. For this, data from the Korean National Health Insurance Service for 2002-2018 was taken, and the average follow-up period for participants was 14.8 years. In total, experts studied information about 130,050 people with migraine and about 130,050 people without it.

The researchers found that the migraine groupmore often faced with various types of cardiovascular diseases. Migraine was generally associated with peripheral arterial disease (adjusted hazard ratio, or aHR = 2.29), coronary heart disease (aHR = 2.17), ischemic (aHR = 2.91), and hemorrhagic stroke (aHR = 2.46). ), atrial fibrillation (aHR = 1.84).

In addition, women with migraine were more likely to develop heart disease than men.

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