Is active peripartum migraine associated with stroke and vascular diseases in pregnant women admitted to hospital?
Active peripartum migraine is strongly associated with stroke and vascular diagnoses during pregnancy, highlighting a potential high-risk obstetric population.
In this large, population based sample of pregnant women admitted to hospital, a strong relation existed between active peripartum migraine and vascular diagnoses during pregnancy. Because these data do not allow determination of which came first, migraine or the vascular condition, prospective studies of pregnant women are needed to explore this association further.
Bushnell et al. (Tue,) studied this question.