People who suffer from migraines have a higher cardiovascular risk profile than similar people who don’t have these debilitating headaches, according to a new report. This is especially true for patients with migraines involving an aura. Previous reports have linked migraine to an elevated risk of having a stroke. In the present study, Dr. Ann Scher, from the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and colleagues examined the possibility that this was because migraine patients have a higher cardiovascular risk profile. In the study, published in the medical journal Neurology, the risk profiles of 620 patients with migraine were compared with those of 5135 “control” subjects without migraine.
