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Migraine and the risk of cervical artery dissection: a case-control study
C Tzourio1, L Benslamia, B Guillon
1INSERM U360, Service de Neurologie, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, 75651 Paris cedex 13, France. tzourio@chups.jussieu.fr
Neurology
|August 15, 2002
Abstract:
The association between migraine and cervical artery dissection (CAD) was explored in a hospital-based case-control study. Migraine was present in 49.1% (23/47) of patients with CAD and in 21% (11/52) of patients hospitalized for a cerebral ischemic event not related to a CAD (adjusted odds ratio = 3.6; 1.5 to 8.6, p = 0.005). This result supports the hypothesis that an underlying arterial wall disease could be a predisposing condition for migraine.