1. Increased migraine risk in osteoporosis patients: a nationwide population-based study.
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Wu, Chieh-Hsin, Zhang, Zi-Hao, Wu, Ming-Kung, Wang, Chiu-Huan, Lu, Ying-Yi, and Lin, Chih-Lung
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MIGRAINE risk factors ,OSTEOPOROSIS ,COHORT analysis ,PROPORTIONAL hazards models ,PATIENTS - Abstract
Background: Osteoporosis and migraine are both important public health problems and may have overlapping pathophysiological mechanisms. The aim of this study was to use a Taiwanese population-based dataset to assess migraine risk in osteoporosis patients. Methods: The Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database was used to analyse data for 40,672 patients aged ≥20 years who had been diagnosed with osteoporosis during 1996-2010. An additional 40,672 age-matched patients without osteoporosis were randomly selected as the non-osteoporosis group. The relationship between osteoporosis and migraine risk was estimated using Cox proportional hazard regression models. Results: During the follow-up period, 1110 patients with osteoporosis and 750 patients without osteoporosis developed migraine. After controlling for covariates, the overall incidence of migraine was 1.37-fold higher in the osteoporosis group than in the non-osteoporosis group (3.72 vs. 1.24 per 1000 person-years, respectively). Migraine risk factors included high Charlson Comorbidity Index score, female gender, hypertension, depression, asthma, allergic rhinitis, obesity, and tobacco use disorder. Conclusions: Our results indicate that patients with a history of osteoporosis had a higher risk of migraine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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