Migraines are fraught with myocardial

using data from the register of medical insurance for the period between 2001 and 2012

Women who have migraines accompanied by aura, have a higher risk of heart attack. This risk increases even more if a woman takes oral contraceptives.


Migraine with aura, scientists have found a significant risk factor for cardiovascular events than heredity, diabetes, or obesity, or even smoking. Migraine with aura is a migraine, preceded by visual or other sensory symptoms: flashing lights, blind spots, distorted smell, numbness, or tingling in the hands and face.

In the first study were included 28,000 women. During 15 years of follow up, the 1400 women who had migraine with aura were recorded 1030 heart attack, stroke, or death from cardiovascular causes. So irregular migraine with aura can be considered a risk factor for heart attacks in middle-aged and older women. According to researchers from the Women's Hospital in Boston and the French National Institute of Health, they are the second key risk factor for heart attack and stroke after high blood pressure.

Women may face a higher risk of dangerous blood clots if they use certain hormonal contraceptives. In the second study, women with migraine who used combined oral contraceptives had a higher risk of blood clots, and the risk was highest among women with migraine, which was accompanied by an aura.

Scientists studied the effect of the type of migraine and the combined hormonal contraceptive type on the blood clot risk, using data from the register of medical insurance for the period between 2001 and 2012. The experts studied about 145,000 women who used combined hormonal contraceptives, including 2691 who had migraine with aura, and 3437 - migraine without aura.

Combined hormonal contraceptives contain the hormones estrogen and progestin. Although it was suggested that the new generation of combined hormonal contraceptives are an extremely small risk of blood clots, U.S. researchers say that the difference between the new and old generations of oral contraceptives is not so great.