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MONDAY, Dec. 17, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Women with active migraine have a lower risk for type 2 diabetes, according to a study published online Dec. 17 in JAMA Neurology<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Guy Fagherazzi, Ph.D., from the Institut National de la Sant\u00e9 et de la Recherche M\u00e9dicale in Villejuif, France, and colleagues evaluated data from a prospective population-based study involving a cohort of 98,995 women born between 1925 to 1950. A total of 76,403 women completed the 2002 follow-up questionnaire and had information available on migraine. The final sample of women underwent follow-up during 2004 to 2014; 74,247 were included in the study after 2,156 with type 2 diabetes were excluded.<\/p>\n
There were 2,372 incident type 2 diabetes cases during 10 years of follow-up. The researchers found that compared with women with no migraine history, those with active migraine had a lower risk for type 2 diabetes (univariate hazard ratio, 0.80; multivariable-adjusted hazard ratio, 0.70). During the 24 years prior to diabetes diagnosis, after adjustment for potential type 2 diabetes risk factors, there was a linear decrease in active migraine prevalence from 22 to 11 percent. For 22 years after diagnosis, the prevalence of migraine plateaued around 11 percent.<\/p>\n
“These results can have substantial implications on the understanding of mechanisms underlying these two conditions,” the authors write.<\/p>\n
One author disclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.<\/p>\n
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