Deans' stroke musings: Men and Women With Migraine Both Carry an Increased Risk of Ischaemic Stroke

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Friday, June 23, 2023

Men and Women With Migraine Both Carry an Increased Risk of Ischaemic Stroke

My treatment for my migraines was to step down from being a manager.

Men and Women With Migraine Both Carry an Increased Risk of Ischaemic Stroke

Women and men who experience migraine headaches also carry an elevated risk of having an ischaemic stroke, but women alone may carry an additional risk of myocardial infarction (MI) and haemorrhagic stroke, according to a study published in PLOS Medicine.

People diagnosed with migraine are believed to have a

higher risk of experiencing an MI or stroke before the age of 60. Previous studies have suggested that the increased risk of ischaemic stroke mostly affects young women. However, it was unclear whether women with migraine also carry a higher risk of MI and haemorrhagic stroke compared with men, which was the aim of the new research.

Cecilia Hvitfeldt Fuglsang, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, and colleagues conducted a nationwide study of Danish medical records collected from 1996 to 2018, from individuals aged 18 to 60 years. They identified men and women with migraine based on their prescription drug records and compared their risk of a MI and ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke before the age of 60 with the risks faced by people in the general population without migraine.

Contrary to earlier findings, the analysis showed that both men and women with migraine had a similarly increased risk of ischaemic stroke. However, women with migraine may also carry a slightly higher risk of MI and haemorrhagic stroke, compared with men with migraine and the general population.

Overall, the results suggest that women are more greatly impacted by migraine, especially since the condition is predominantly diagnosed in women.

The researchers point out that since they used prescription drug records to identify patients with migraine, they may have missed untreated individuals, which could have resulted in an underestimation of the contribution of migraine to these health problems.

Since MI and stroke can lead to life-long disabilities or even death, the researchers argue that it is vital to identify persons at increased risk to facilitate targeted preventative therapies.

“Migraine was associated with a similarly increased risk of ischaemic stroke among young men and women,” said Dr. Fuglsang. “However, migraine may be associated with an increased risk of myocardial infarction and haemorrhagic stroke only among women.”

Reference: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004238

SOURCE: PLOS Medicine