Migraine and risk of perioperative ischemic stroke and hospital readmission: hospital based registry study.
Authors: Timm FP, Houle TT, Grabitz SD, Lihn AL, Stokholm JB, Eikermann-Haerter K, Nozari A, Kurth T, Eikermann M.
Up to one fifth of the general population have migraine, a primary, chronic-intermittent headache disorder affecting the neuronal and vascular systems and characterized by severe headache accompanied by nausea and/or sensory hypersensitivities such as photophobia and phonophobia.