Women Three Times More Prone To Migraines Than Men
Migraine still bothers more women than men. Being among the top 20 most disabling medical illnesses in the world, it is a common disease that affects more than 36 million in the US, as well as about three times more women than men, according to medindia.
A study in Canada by Sarah Brennenstuhl and Esme Fuller-Thomson, published in 'Headache', shows that parental violence in childhood makes women more open to migraine attacks.
In an April 2014 study, in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research, by Suat Kucukgoncu, higher rates of childhood emotional abuse were recorded in patients who had migraine, as well as patients with regular "tension-type headaches".
"With greater physical abuse histories due to increased duration and chronicity of headaches in these patients, there were past studies like Dawn Buse's in the November 2012 Journal of Neurology, which have also shown some correlation between PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and migraine," according to medindia.
As migraine drops after 60 years to 5% in older women, just 2% of all patients get their migraine attack after 65 years. A doctor should be consulted so that the causes of headaches in later life can be explored, according to migraineresearchfoundation.
