Pregnant women who have one or more migraines also face a heightened risk of stroke and other vascular diseases, even during the pregnancy, a new study finds. Although strokes during a pregnancy are rare, women with a migraine listed on their medical chart face a 30-fold increase in the risk for the most common kind of stroke, researchers report online March 10 in the British Medical Journal.
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