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The Medical Bulletin of Sisli Etfal Hospital
The Association Between Migraine, Metabolic Syndrome, Insulin Resistance, and Obesity in Women: A Case-Control Study [Med Bull Sisli Etfal Hosp]
Med Bull Sisli Etfal Hosp. 2019; 53(4): 395-402 | DOI: 10.14744/SEMB.2018.09582

The Association Between Migraine, Metabolic Syndrome, Insulin Resistance, and Obesity in Women: A Case-Control Study

Ruhan Karahan Ozcan1, Selen Gür Özmen2
1Department of Neurology, Gebze Fatih Community Hospital, Kocaeli, Turkey
2Department of Neuroscience, Graduate School of Health Sciences, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey

Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between migraines and obesity, insulin resistance (IR), and metabolic syndrome in female migraineurs.
Methods: A total of 141 female patients who experience migraines and a control group of 141 sex- and age-matched individuals who do not were enrolled in this case-control study. The migraine group was composed of patients from the Gebze Fatih Community Hospital (Kocaeli, Turkey) neurology outpatient service and the control group included hospital staff and friends who volunteered to participate. Descriptive statistics and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed. Migraine was designated as a dependent variable. Family history of migraine, stroke, metabolic syndrome, cardiac disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes mellitus; cigarette use; alcohol consumption; and the presence of hypertension, IR, hypertriglyceridemia, low level of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), central obesity, metabolic syndrome; as well as homeostasis model assessment and quantitative insulin sensitivity check index results were selected as independent variables.
Results: The mean waist circumference, mean height, mean weight, and central obesity were greater in the control group (p=0.009, 0.004, 0.036, and 0.015, respectively). A multivariate logistic regression model of migraine presence showed that a family history of migraine (odds ratio [OR]: 1.542, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.451-8.905; p<0.0001), family history of stroke (OR: 1.043, 95% CI: 1.214-6.633; p=0.016), and no central obesity (OR: -0.705, 95% CI: -0.290-0.843; p=0.010) were statistically significant variables in our study.
Conclusion: The results of our study indicated that IR and metabolic syndrome were not associated with migraine in women. There was an inverse relationship between central obesity and migraine. Additional research with larger participant groups should be performed to further explore the complex relationship between migraine, obesity, IR, and metabolic syndrome.

Keywords: Co-morbidity, insulin resistance; metabolic syndrome; migraine; obesity.

Kadın migren hastalarında metabolik sendrom, insülin direnci ve obesite: Vaka-kontrol çalışması

Ruhan Karahan Ozcan1, Selen Gür Özmen2
1Department of Neurology, Gebze Fatih Community Hospital, Kocaeli, Turkey
2Department of Neuroscience, Graduate School of Health Sciences, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey

Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between migraines and obesity, insulin resistance (IR), and metabolic syndrome in female migraineurs.
Methods: A total of 141 female patients who experience migraines and a control group of 141 sex- and age-matched individuals who do not were enrolled in this case-control study. The migraine group was composed of patients from the Gebze Fatih Community Hospital (Kocaeli, Turkey) neurology outpatient service and the control group included hospital staff and friends who volunteered to participate. Descriptive statistics and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed. Migraine was designated as a dependent variable. Family history of migraine, stroke, metabolic syndrome, cardiac disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes mellitus; cigarette use; alcohol consumption; and the presence of hypertension, IR, hypertriglyceridemia, low level of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), central obesity, metabolic syndrome; as well as homeostasis model assessment and quantitative insulin sensitivity check index results were selected as independent variables.
Results: The mean waist circumference, mean height, mean weight, and central obesity were greater in the control group (p=0.009, 0.004, 0.036, and 0.015, respectively). A multivariate logistic regression model of migraine presence showed that a family history of migraine (odds ratio [OR]: 1.542, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.451-8.905; p<0.0001), family history of stroke (OR: 1.043, 95% CI: 1.214-6.633; p=0.016), and no central obesity (OR: -0.705, 95% CI: -0.290-0.843; p=0.010) were statistically significant variables in our study.
Conclusion: The results of our study indicated that IR and metabolic syndrome were not associated with migraine in women. There was an inverse relationship between central obesity and migraine. Additional research with larger participant groups should be performed to further explore the complex relationship between migraine, obesity, IR, and metabolic syndrome.

Anahtar Kelimeler: Migren, obesite, insulin direnci, metabolik sendrom, komorbidite

Ruhan Karahan Ozcan, Selen Gür Özmen. The Association Between Migraine, Metabolic Syndrome, Insulin Resistance, and Obesity in Women: A Case-Control Study. Med Bull Sisli Etfal Hosp. 2019; 53(4): 395-402

Corresponding Author: Ruhan Karahan Ozcan
Manuscript Language: English
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