Cardiovascular disease – association with migraine with aura in women

This analysis used data from the Women’s Health Study – a study that, starting in 1993, tested the role of Vitamin E and acetylsalicylic acid among 39,876 female health professionals in the USA.^[WHS] As shown on the slide, the analysis found that migraine with aura increased the risk of cardiovascular incidents compared with migraine without aura or no migraine.^{[Kurth et al., 2020]}

References:
Kurth T, Rist PM, Ridker PM, et al. Association of migraine with aura and other risk factors with incident cardiovascular disease in women. JAMA 2020; 323 (22): 2281–2289.

Women’s Health Study. https://whs.bwh.harvard.edu/index.html. Accessed Jul 2020.