AHA/ASA member of the Stroke Council research committee and others and a volunteer expert, Karen L. Furie, M.D. MPH, offers perspective (via Zoom) on ISC 20 presentation WMP117. She oversees the clinical research programs for the Norman Prince Neurosciences Institute and is chief of neurology at Rhode Island Hospital, The Miriam Hospital and Bradley Hospital. She serves as chair of the Department of Neurology at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, RI.
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"It is essential that blood pressure be managed effectively as soon as its identified as a potential problem. So I guess the takeaway message from this study is that if you suffer from migraine with aura you may be at higher risk for stroke and you should definitely know whether your blood pressure is in the appropriate range or whether you need to be doing something different with regard to lifestyle or medication. It's also potentially a flag for healthcare providers to scrutinize patients who have been treated for migraine with aura in order to establish whether additional testing, such as an electrocardiogram, may be useful to identify future risk. Doing an electrocardiogram in patients with migraine is not standard practice at the current time but this study indicates that it may be a predictor of stroke risk in the future."