Ischaemic stroke: medical risk factors

Migraine with aura

• Migraine with aura is a stroke risk factor
• The risk is higher in smokers
• The risk is also higher in users of the combined oral contraceptives (OCPs)
• The risk is also increased following surgery
• Post-menopausal women are also at high risk

Sleep disorders

Other neurological co-morbidities

Metabolic risk factors

Infections

Drugs

Cancer-related: risk factors: hypercoagulation

Cancer-related: risk factors: others

Cancer-related: predictors

Other risk factors

Possible protective factors

References

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2. O'Donnell MJ, Xavier D, Liu L, et al; INTERSTROKE investigators. Risk factors for ischaemic and intracerebral haemorrhagic stroke in 22 countries (the INTERSTROKE study): a case-control study. Lancet 2010; 376:112-23.
3. Kroll ME, Green J, Beral V, et al; Million Women Study Collaborators. Adiposity and ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke: prospective study in women and meta-analysis. Neurology 2016; 87:1473-1481.
4. Sacco S, Merki-Feld GS, Ægidius KL, et al; European Headache Federation (EHF) and the European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health (ESC). Hormonal contraceptives and risk of ischemic stroke in women with migraine: a consensus statement from the European Headache Federation (EHF) and the European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health (ESC). J Headache Pain 2017; 18:108.
5. Bigal ME, Lipton RB. Migraine as a risk factor for deep brain lesions and cardiovascular disease. Cephalalgia 2007; 27:976-980.
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