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

Do birth control methods like IUDs cause migraine attacks? An expert answers common questions about what to expect with hormonal contraception.

For millions of women, combined hormonal contraceptives are a part of their daily life, but new research is sounding alarms ...

After adjusting for factors like age, smoking, hypertension, migraines with aura, and abdominal obesity, the researchers found that contraceptive use alone tripled the risk of stroke. Importantly ...

The findings add to a growing body of evidence linking hormonal contraception to vascular risk in women of reproductive age. Cryptogenic ischaemic stroke ... smoking, migraine with aura, and ...

The most common categories of migraine headaches (or attacks) are episodic versus chronic, and then those without aura and ... genetics and hormones, some people are more at risk.

The findings add to a growing body of evidence linking hormonal contraception to vascular risk in women of reproductive age. CIS, which is a stroke ... smoking, migraine with aura, and abdominal ...

While for most women the use of oral contraceptives containing estrogen is safe, those who have migraine with aura, are older than 35, smoke cigarettes, or have other stroke risk factors ...

For a significant number of women with migraine, headaches and other symptoms are linked to fluctuations in hormone levels, especially estrogen ... risk of heart attack and stroke.

After adjusting for stroke risk factors like age, comorbidities (i.e., hypertension), smoking, migraine with aura, and obesity ... “We calculated the equivalent estrogen dose for each patient ...