A curious link between diabetes and migraines

• Autores: Jessica Hamzelou
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3160, 2018, pág. 7
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A huge study of the population of Norway has found that people who are being treated for diabetes are less likely to be treated for migraines. The finding suggests that something about diabetes--or the drugs used to treat it--might offer protection against migraines. A link between diabetes and migraines was suggested back in 1970, when some doctors noticed that people with diabetes seemed less likely to complain about migraine symptoms. But it has been hard finding medical evidence of this hunch. Several studies have investigated whether people with one disorder are less likely to have the other, but the results so far have been mixed