NEW YORK (Reuters Health)-the people who get painful migraine headaches may be a high risk to develop clinical depression, suggests a new study from Canada.
The study, published in the journal of headache, also hints that relations could go both ways, and people with clinical depression can have a higher risk of developing a migraine, but that finding could have been due to chance, the researchers said.
Even so, the main writer Geeta Modgill, who was at the University of Calgary while doing the job, told Reuters Health that migraine sufferers and depression should know the signs of the disease both because each possible at higher risk for other conditions.
Migraine is a throbbing headache, sometimes only one side of the head, which can make people queasy and sensitive to light. While they may be preceded with a visual impairment known as Aura. Depression is a serious mental disorder as defined by a collection of symptoms that can include sadness, insomnia, fatigue and emotional numbness.
Modgill's groups pull data from the national survey of Health Canada's population, which profiled more than 15,000 people and followed up with them every two years between 1994 and 2007.