Childhood Abuse linked to migraine, stroke and heart attack

[wdtony]

Abuse May Raise Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke in Migraine Sufferers

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20100623/hl ... esufferers
           

Wed Jun 23, 7:08 pm ET

WEDNESDAY, June 23 (HealthDay News) -- Adults who suffer migraines and were victims of childhood abuse or neglect face an increased risk for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, a new study suggests.


The multi-center, cross-sectional study included more than 1,300 migraine patients who completed surveys about their health status and childhood history. A team of researchers from 11 neurology centers in the United States and Canada found a link between risk of stroke, transient ischemic attack (mini-stroke), heart attack and the total number of forms of abuse a person suffered as a child (physical, emotional or sexual abuse, or physical or emotional neglect).


The study was to be presented Wednesday at the American Headache Society's annual meeting in Los Angeles.


"It is clear from this work that early adverse experiences influence a migraine sufferer's cardiovascular health in adulthood," study leader Dr. Gretchen E. Tietjen, of the University of Toledo College of Medicine in Ohio, said in a news release from the headache society.


"Other work has shown a link between childhood maltreatment and migraine, and now we know that early abuse puts these adults at a greater risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease," she added.


"Dr. Tietjen and her teams are pioneers in understanding the relationship between negative childhood experiences and migraine," Dr. David Dodick, president of the headache society, said in the news release. "Now we need to drill even deeper to understand the relationship between migraine, aura status, childhood maltreatment and [cardiovascular] disease risk."


A possible limitation to the study is that the physician-diagnosed diseases were self-reported.

[wdtony]

Another link:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 085522.htm


Migraine Sufferers Who Experienced Childhood Abuse Have Greater Risk of Cardiovascular Disease, Study Finds

ScienceDaily (June 25, 2010) — Migraine sufferers who experienced abuse and neglect as children have a greater risk of cardiovascular (CV) disease including stroke and myocardial infarction (MI) among others, say scientists presenting data at the American Headache Society's 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting in Los Angeles.



In a multi-center, cross-sectional study of more than 1,300 headache clinic patients diagnosed with migraine, investigators found a linear relationship between the risk of stroke, transient ischemic attack (TIA), MI, or all of these adverse outcomes and the total number of abuse types they experienced as children (physical, emotional or sexual abuse, or physical or emotional neglect.)

Patients in the study completed a self-administered electronic questionnaire which collected information on age, gender, race, highest educational level attained, body mass index, smoking status, history of childhood maltreatment, as well as self-reported physician-diagnosed CV conditions and risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and obstructive sleep apnea. The Childhood Trauma Questionnaire was used to assess physical, sexual, emotional abuse and physical, emotional neglect.

"It is clear from this work that early adverse experiences influence a migraine sufferers' cardiovascular health in adulthood," said Gretchen E. Tietjen, MD, of the University of Toledo College Of Medicine, who led the team from 11 neurology centers in the U.S. and Canada. "Other work has shown a link between childhood maltreatment and migraine and now we know that early abuse puts these adults at a greater risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease.

"Dr. Tietjen and her teams are pioneers in understanding the relationship between negative childhood experiences and migraine," said David Dodick, M.D., president of the AHS. "Now we need to drill even deeper to understand the relationship between migraine, aura status, childhood maltreatment and CV disease risk."

[wdtony]

And if you have insomnia or a sleeping disorder, possibly stemming from your program experience, this study might explain why you have migraines:

http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/188 ... e=r_health

REM Sleep Deprivation Plays A Role In Chronic Migraine

Posted on: Thursday, 24 June 2010, 03:52 CDT

Reporting at the American Headache Society's 52nd Annual Scientific Meeting in Los Angeles this week, new research shows that sleep deprivation leads to changes in the levels of key proteins that facilitate events involved in the underlying pathology of migraine.

Paul L. Dunham, Ph.D. and his team at Missouri State University's Center for Biomedical & Life Sciences sought to understand the mechanisms by which sleep disturbance increases the risk of migraine and may even trigger migraine.

"Previous clinical data support a relationship between sleep quality and migraine," said Dr. Durham, "so we used an established model of sleep deprivation to measure levels of proteins that lower the activation threshold of peripheral and central nerves involved in pain transmission during migraine. We found that REM sleep deprivation caused increased expression of the proteins p38, PKA, and P2X3, which are known to play an important role in initiating and sustaining chronic pain."

"So little is known about the biological mechanisms that underlie how certain factors trigger a migraine attack," said David Dodick, M.D., president of the AHS. "This is important work and this Missouri State team should be applauded for beginning to shed light on an area desperately in need of investigation."

The work was supported by Merck & Co.

More than 200 scientific papers and posters are being presented during the AHS meeting which is expected to draw some 500 migraine and headache health professionals including doctors, researchers, and specialists.

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[Antigen]

I am that bitch on a dark horse

[DannyB II]

I had read this just before I saw your post, I felt there was a relation here. Maybe some of the manifestations that come out of the abuse we endured.

http://www.openingtheheartnow.blogspot.com/
Sunday, June 27, 2010

Third String
"It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a little success and leave it that way." Marlon Brando

I'm pretty sure that it was "a little success" that could not be embraced or left alone that drove my heart to attack itself as much or perhaps more than it was my genetic propensity. I've said in other places that I always wanted more and success was right up there on the top of that unattainable list.

I was never satisfied with what little I'd achieved. The truth is, I was a for a short while, a second string writer, therapist and teacher and after a few years was finally moved down to third string. The push for first string is the problem, the striving to move from third or second, the unrelenting drive to climb the ladder of success gets so all consuming that is until the ladder falls down on you and need a cardiac surgeon to lift it off.

Today I am content for the first time to be where I am, be who I am, contribute what I can, look back on what I've done and say, "you know it was and is enough" and third string is not bad. At least I'm still in the game and who knows the First String and Second String my give out at any time and then the Coach of coaches may put me back in, but if HE/SHE makes that call I will not wear my heart out in the last quarter of the game.