Migraine in pregnancy linked with complications
Miscarriage and pregnancy-associated hypertension appear more common, results suggest
27th June 2019
Pregnant women with migraine headaches are more likely to have miscarriage and pregnancy-associated hypertension, and their babies are at risk for complications early after birth, a large study suggests.
Using Danish registries, researchers identified 23,000 pregnant women with migraine and compared them with 228,000 pregnant women without migraine.
Nearly 8% of women with migraine had pregnancy-associated hypertension disorders and 11.3% had miscarriages, whereas those rates were 5% and 10.3%, respectively, in women without