Adverse biomarkers in migraine don't explain elevated cardiovascular risk

Modest associations between migraine and adverse levels of certain cardiovascular biomarkers in a large cohort of women do not explain the connection between migraine and cardiovascular disease, Dr. Tobias Kurth said at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology. In a cross-sectional analysis of apparently healthy women aged 45 years and older who were followed for 10 years, the women with any history of migraine had small but statistically significant increased total cholesterol, non-HDL cholesterol, apolipoprotein B-100, and C-reactive protein (CRP) levels, compared with women who had no history of migraine, reported Dr. Kurth of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston....