Amsterdam: A new study has found that high blood pressure can increase migraine issues in women.
Researchers reported in the journal “Neurology” that high blood pressure can exacerbate migraine issues in women. Specifically, high diastolic blood pressure is more associated with an increased risk of migraine in women.
Diastolic pressure is the second element in blood pressure, occurring when the heart is at rest between beats.
The study found that other risk factors related to heart health do not appear to increase the risk of migraine, even though migraines are associated with higher chances of stroke, heart attack, or heart disease.
Professor and researcher Antoinette Maassen van den Brink from Erasmus MC University Medical Center in the Netherlands stated that their study considered well-known risk factors for heart disease, such as diabetes, smoking, obesity, and high cholesterol, and found that only women participants with high diastolic blood pressure showed increased chances of migraines.