Patients with migraines might also have sleep apnea or other sleep disorders, reports Medscape.

About 37% of patients with migraine responding to a survey were deemed to be at high risk for  SA, which is much higher than estimates in the general population.

And because over 75% of migraine respondents with SA were diagnosed by a physician, “it may be worthwhile to start asking our patients about this,” said Dawn C. Buse, PhD, a licensed clinical psychologist and associate professor, Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, New York City.

“We haven’t tested this yet, but the hope is that if sleep apnea is associated with more frequent headaches, treating sleep apnea might benefit headache.”

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