Migraine is obviously one of the worst kinds of headache, you can get and a new study says that women suffering from it are prone to develop heart problems.
According to US News, the study called Nurses' Health Study II revealed that women having migraines poses greater risk of having a heart attack and angina- chest pain.
The report added that the women may also need to undergo heart-related procedures such as coronary artery bypass grafting, then compared to women who did not get the severe headaches.
"Migraine should be considered a marker for increased risk of cardiovascular disease, at least in women," said lead researcher Dr. Tobias Kurth.
He further informed that women are not the only one confined to developing heart diseases, men may be similarly affected. "We have no reason to believe that this is limited to women," Kurth said.
As per Live Science, the research found Migraines in women not only increased risk of developing heart disease, but they were also associated with a greater chance of dying from heart-related problems as compared to women without migraines.
Researchers analyzed data of more than 116,000 US women who took part in the study. At the start of the study, the women aged between25 to 42, free not having heart disease, were followed from 1989 to 2011.
At the study's start, 15 percent of the women had migraines. During 20 years of follow-up, more than 1,300 women had a heart attack or stroke and 223 died from one of those conditions, the researchers found.
Compared with women who did not have migraines, women who had migraines had a 50 percent greater risk for heart attack, stroke or surgery to open blocked heart arteries, the study suggested.
"This study provides really good quality evidence that migraine in women is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease," said Dr. Rebecca Burch, an instructor in the department of neurology at Harvard Medical School.
However, the good news is Migraines poses a fairly small effect on cardiovascular risk compared to other known risk factors, such as smoking, high blood pressure or high cholesterol, said Burch.
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