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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The reality of A-fib is the issue, not the choice of drugs or dietary changes that might help.
One of the therapies was generic nicotine, available without a prescription, and that was as good as the other prescription drugs.
What’s a PFO?
No, no! Not a Fibonacci! A fib = AFibrial (as in atrial fibrillation)!
BTW, having had one, migraine with an aura (optical nerve corona in the middle of your visual field) is a disturbing experience (in addition to the really painful headache). Only had it once. Never want to have another.
first time i thought it was vascular, doc said no to that too
Atrial fibrillation as a precursor of mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine-induced pericarditis
Read Post #8 about PFO and closing it.
I had an “Amplatzer” device stuck in there to close the hole. heart tissue grows around it to complete the patching.
No adverse effects 15 years later.
“Why didn’t that need to be addressed while in childhood? I would have thought it would have been a problem for military service.”
Not real simple AFAIK to detect the PFO. The test for it is not a fun thing, at least what they did to me. They pump bubble into your veins and watch with echo to see if the bubbles cross over in the harts. That would indicate the presence of the unclosed chamber wall (PFO).
Never really affected me before taking up diving and expsoing myself to the possibility of nitrogen bubbles moving around. Had been an avid cyclist and it did not seem to matter with hard heart work.
Still think a bubble got into my brain and triggered a stroke. Had an uncle turned into a vegetable after a stroke, glad to have the hole plugged.
Bump for later
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