Study: Women who suffer from migraines may be more likely to develop dementia
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 23-09-2019
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Therefore, this current finding may be helpful in catching Alzheimer's and other degenerative conditions earlier in life, professor and study author Suzanne Tyas, from the University of Waterloo in Canada, said in a statement. This may be an important finding, considering the chances of degeneration in women's brains are less likely to be caught in earlier stages compared to men's. This is because, as The Swaddle had earlier reported, women outperform men on verbal memory tests, generally and in early stages of the disease, even though the degree of progression of Alzheimer's may be the same in both.
"Identifying a midlife risk factor, such as migraines, enables earlier detection of at-risk individuals," she said. "And identifying a link to migraines provides us with a rationale to guide new strategies to prevent Alzheimer's disease because so far, we don't yet have any way to cure Alzheimer's and only know that prevention is key."