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. 2008 Aug 7;337:a636. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a636

Table 2.

 Age adjusted association (odds ratio)* between migraine and Framingham predicted 10 year risk of coronary heart disease in 27 519 women in women’s health study

Framingham estimate of 10 year risk of coronary heart disease
No of women in category ≤1% 2-4% 5-9% ≥10%
No of women OR (95% CI) P value No of women OR (95% CI) P value No of women OR (95% CI) P value
No history of migraine (n=22 445) 12 000 6912 1.00 (reference) 2632 1.00 (reference) 901 1.00 (reference)
History of migraine:
 Any (n=5074) 2862 1487 1.09 (1.01 to 1.17) 0.03 535 1.15 (1.03 to 1.29) 0.02 190 1.26 (1.06 to 1.49) 0.009
 Active migraine with aura (n=1418) 840 393 1.02 (0.89 to 1.17) 0.76 141 1.14 (0.94 to 1.40) 0.19 44 1.14 (0.82 to 1.59) 0.42
 Active migraine without aura (n=2159) 1332 595 1.02 (0.92 to 1.14) 0.72 178 1.00 (0.84 to 1.20) 0.97 54 1.02 (0.76 to 1.36) 0.92
 Prior migraine† (n=1497) 690 499 1.27 (1.12 to 1.45) <0.01 216 1.46 (1.22 to 1.75) <0.01 92 1.83 (1.43 to 2.35) <0.01

*Calculated from multinominal logistic regression model with women without history of migraine and with Framingham estimated 10 year risk of coronary heart disease ≤1% as reference group.

†Women with history of migraine but no active migraine in year before completing baseline questionnaire.