Experts aren't sure why this happens. They do know that you're more likely to have a stroke if you have a history of migraine with aura. It's also more common in women who are 45 or younger. That may be because of hormonal changes. Hormonal birth control also raises the chances you...
S A N F R A N C I S C O -- Women aged 35 and younger who experience migraine with aura and who use oral contraceptive pills have an increased risk of ischemic stroke substantial enough that discontin- uation in favor of alternative methods of birth control should be considered, Dr....
Migraine is a complex neurovascular disease with a range of severity and symptoms, yet mostly studied as one phenotype in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Here we combine large GWAS datasets from six European populations to study the main migraine subtypes, migraine with aura (MA) and mig...