Migraine with aura and risk of silent brain infarcts and white matter hyperintensities: an MRI study.

ABSTRACT: A small number of population-based studies reported an association between migraine with aura and risk of silent brain infarcts and white matter hyperintensities in females. We investigated these relations in a population-based sample of female twins. We contacted female twins ages 30-60 years identified through the population-based Danish Twin Registry. Based on questionnaire responses, twins were invited to participate in a telephone-based interview conducted by physicians. Headache diagnoses were established according to the International Headache Society criteria. Cases with migraine with aura, their co-twins, and unrelated migraine-free twins (controls) were invited to a brain magnetic resonance imaging scan performed at a single centre. Brain scans were assessed for the presence of i

SUBMITTER: Gaist D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4939694 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature