Financial stress may up migraine risk, study
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 20-10-2021
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Stress caused by financial hardship can increase the risk of
developing migraine in people with a particular gene variant, a study
has showed. Migraine is a serious and debilitating neurological disease
affecting one billion people worldwide. The findings showed that the
genetics of circadian rhythms has an effect on migraine and that people
with the CLOCK gene variant have more migraines under financial stress.
The
CLOCK gene has an important role in regulating many rhythmic patterns
of the body, including body temperature or level of cortisol - the
primary stress hormone.
Though the researchers did not find a
significant direct connection between the gene and migraine when they
factored in financial stress, they found that the investigated gene
variants increased the odds of having migraine type headaches in those
subjects who suffered from financial hardship by around 20 per cent.