Estrogen-containing combined hormonal contraceptives are not tied to vascular risk, such as stroke, in women with migraine with and without aura.

Migraine with aura plays a key role in young adults with unexplained stroke, particularly in women, highlighting the need to ...

A CONDITION affecting 10 million Brits has been detected as a new risk factor for strokes in young people. Strokes – where ...

The first trimester of pregnancy tends to be the most problematic for migraines due to Increasing levels of estrogen.

There’s still a misconception that it’s mostly men who suffer from stroke, yet women account for over half of all cases ...

In contrast, nontraditional risk factors, such as blood clots in the veins, migraine with aura, chronic kidney disease, chronic liver disease or cancer, were more strongly associated with stroke ...

A growing understanding of how “reproductive” hormones sculpt the brain could transform the management of neurological ...

Among adults ages 18-49 (median age of 41 years) who were born with a hole in the upper chambers of their heart known as patent foramen ovale (PFO), strokes of unknown cause were more strongly ...

Adults younger than 50 years of age had more than double the risk of having a stroke from migraine or other nontraditional stroke risk factors rather than traditional risks such as high blood pressure ...