Increased risk of Bell palsy in patients with migraine: A nationwide cohort study

OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the association between migraine and Bell palsy and to examine the effects of age, sex, migraine subtype, and comorbid risk factors for Bell palsy. METHODS:This nationwide cohort study was conducted using data from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database. Subjects aged 18 years or older with neurologist-diagnosed migraine from 2005 to 2009 were included. A nonheadache age- and propensity score–matched control cohort was selected for comparison. All subjects were followed until the end of 2010, death, or the occurrence of a Bell palsy event. Cox proportional hazards regression was used to calculate the adjusted hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals to compare the risk of Bell palsy between groups. RESULTS:Both cohorts (n = 136,704 each) were followed for a mean of 3.2 years. During the follow-up period, 671 patients (424,372 person-years) in the migraine cohort and 365 matched control subjects (438,677 person-years) were newly diagnosed with Bell palsy (incidence rates, 158.1 and 83.2/100,000 person-years, respectively). The adjusted hazard ratio for Bell palsy was 1.91 (95% confidence interval, 1.68–2.17; p < 0.001). The association between migraine and Bell palsy remained significant in sensitivity analyses, and tests of interaction failed to reach significance in all subgroup analyses. CONCLUSION:Migraine is a previously unidentified risk factor for Bell palsy. The association between these 2 conditions suggests a linked disease mechanism, which is worthy of further exploration..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:84

Enthalten in:

Neurology - 84(2015), 2, Seite 116-124

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Peng, Kuan-Po [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Yung-Tai [Sonstige Person]
Fuh, Jong-Ling [Sonstige Person]
Tang, Chao-Hsiun [Sonstige Person]
Wang, Shuu-Jiun [Sonstige Person]

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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

BKL:

44.90

Themen:

Bell Palsy - epidemiology
Bell Palsy - etiology
Migraine Disorders - complications
Migraine Disorders - epidemiology
Migraine with Aura - complications
Migraine with Aura - epidemiology
Migraine without Aura - complications
Migraine without Aura - epidemiology

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RVK Klassifikation

doi:

10.1212/WNL.0000000000001124

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1962460681