Posted on 08/07/2022 9:55:22 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Patients with migraine with aura (MwA) have significantly higher artificial intelligence-enabled electrocardiogram (AI-ECG) atrial fibrillation (AF) prediction model output, according to a study.
Chia-Chun Chiang, M.D., from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and colleagues compared AI-ECG AF prediction model output in adult patients with MwA and migraine without aura (MwoA). Adult patients with an MwA or MwoA diagnosis and at least one ECG with normal sinus rhythm within the past 20 years were identified. A total of 40,002 patients (17,840 with MwA and 22,162 with MwoA) were included in the final analysis.
The researchers found that compared with the MwoA group, the MwA group had significantly higher AF prediction model output (mean, 7.3 versus 5.6 percent). The difference between the MwA and MwoA groups remained significant after adjustment for vascular comorbidities in the overall group and among those aged 18 to <35 years and 35 to <55 years, women of all ages, men of all ages, women aged 35 to <55 years, and men aged 18 to <35 years.
"Our results suggest MwA is an independent risk factor for AF, especially in patients <55 years old, and that AF-mediated cardioembolism may play an important role in the migraine-stroke association," the authors write.
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Serious as a heart attack!
My degree is in mathematics rather than medicine, but I’m pretty sure the way to avoid a fib is to stop making the next value in your sequence the sum of the most recent two values.
I had a PFO plugged following a scuba decompression hit.
The doc doing the fix mentioned closing the PFO had major benefit in helping prevent strokes.
Said the major indicator for PFO closure was migraine. I used to get aura, but never with migraine.
Still have A-fib. They keep wanting me to take an anti-coag stuff like warfarin, but that stuff almost crippled me.
Why didn’t that need to be addressed while in childhood? I would have thought it would have been a problem for military service.
You’re such a wealth of joy for me /sarc
But I gotta give you credit for the material you’re sharing. Really good stuff.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-07-experts-strongly-catheter-based-closure.html
You can’t be series....
had them for years and they went away ~ten years ago
i’ve now had 5 in the last three months...
I and my sister get visual aura, sometimes called visual migraine, but she has never had actual headaches.
I, on the other hand, experienced lateral migraines for about three years, beginning after my mother died in 2010. However, the visual aura was never associated, as far as I or my neurologist could tell, with a migraine. I experienced the last migraine pain in 2013. I still get the occasional visual aura.
In their study, Akermand and Goadsby found that both VIP and PACAP caused blood vessels to dilate, but that this effect only lasted for about 10 minutes. And in the case of PACAP, the widening of blood vessels did not happen at the same time as the overactivity of neurons. In other words, the dilation of blood vessels doesn’t seem to have anything to do with migraine.
I’ve had many recently as well. And so has a friend. Hmmm...
I have occasional a-fib, and received a [LAD] stent five years ago.
After 40 years without migraines (MwA), I had five daily that finaly took me to the Emergency Room three days in a row!
Doc says in follow-up visit, I can take three doses of maximum Tylenol a day, but it was a potent injection at the ER that removed the worst pain I’ve ever had in my 79 years—and I’m a kidney stone sufferer!
In the earlier case—and the most rececent—it was a bright flash of light that initiated the MwA.
Migraines are a cousin of epilepsy.
I started having migraines in my 39s and they continued until my early 60s. They can ruin your life.
My son has both - and the triggers for both are the same (sunlight, lack of sleep, poor diet).
He is 20 now, but he switched to a modified keto diet 3 years ago which allowed him to go down to a low dose of seizure med and eliminated his migraines. I say modified because he does not eat enough to maintain his weight full keto, so he has 1-2 cheat days a week.
Lived with them most of my life.
Nothing to do except tough them out in my case.
At times I have suspected a very mild epilepsy but the neurology crowd disagrees.
I’m 68 with mild hypertension on medication and I’m also 20 lbs overweight. Recently my older daughter, 37, had her first episode while my younger daughter, 35, has had migraines for over 20 years, often with aura. I’m worried for their health in the future if this report turns out to be correct. However, it should be noted that this statement was at the end of the article: “Several authors disclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.”
After the last 2 years of Covid vaccine hysteria, I tend to discount most studies these days, especially when drug companies are involved. IJS...
I kant? I don’t subscribe to Kant, I’m a Cartesian Rationalist.
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