Migraine with aura plays a key role in young adults with unexplained stroke, particularly in women, highlighting the need to ...

Nontraditional risk factors, particularly migraine with aura, play a major role in patients under 50 years old.

A new study published in the journal of Stroke showed that the most common cause of young-onset cryptogenic ischemic stroke ...

How May PFO Closure Affect Migraine? If one accepts that a PFO plays a pivotal role in the course of a migraine attack, the following scenarios are possible: given that the concept of migraine is ...

A new study looked into risk factors for having a stroke earlier in life and found a surprising link to a fairly common issue ...

A new study suggests the underlying reason for these unexplained, or cryptogenic, strokes could hinge in part on whether ...

The analysis found: Traditional risk factors were more strongly associated with stroke in men and women without a PFO. In contrast, nontraditional risk factors, such as blood clots in the veins, ...

Still, the findings are useful. They show that strokes in younger adults can’t always be explained by the usual causes.

New findings reveal that migraines and other nontraditional factors may explain unexplained strokes in adults under 50.

Non-traditional factors included migraines with aura, kidney disease, liver disease, blood disorders, autoimmune diseases and ...