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Obesity is linked not only to high blood pressure and diabetes but also headache, a new study suggests. Researchers from Drexel University at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Seattle presented their findings that obese women had a 29 percent higher risk of getting migraines than those who are not obese. For men, some 20 percent of those who are obese had migraines compared to 16 percent of those who are not.
The researchers said although it was previously reported that migraine becomes serious if the patient becomes obese, this study is the first showing the different risk of migraine for obese people. If obese people lose weight, they will suffer from less migraine.
Migraine is defined as one-sided headache, but that symptom is found in only 60 percent of the patients. But most are extremely sensitive to light and noise and feel sick to the stomach when the headaches attack them. Ten percent of adults suffer from migraines.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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