(HealthDay)—Migraine is associated with an increased risk for all-cause dementia and Alzheimer disease, according to research published online Sept. 15 in Acta Neurologica Scandinavica.
Long Wang, M.D., from The Second People’s Hospital of Hefei in China, and colleagues conducted a meta-analysis to examine the potential association between migraine and dementia. Data were included from five published cohort studies, with 249,303 individuals.
The researchers found that migraine was associated with an increased risk for all-cause dementia and Alzheimer disease in a pooled analysis (risk ratios [95 percent confidence intervals], 1.34 [1.13 to 1.59] and 2.49 [1.16 to 5.32],…
