Migraine raises risk of most common form of stroke

Monday, November 16, 2009 - 10:28 in Health & Medicine

Pooling results from 21 studies, involving 622,381 men and women, researchers have affirmed that migraine headaches are associated with more than twofold higher chances of the most common kind of stroke: those occurring when blood supply to the brain is suddenly cut off by the buildup of plaque or a blood clot.

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