Women with Migraine Having High Risk of Hypertension, Heart Disease and Stroke : A Quick Survey

Abstract

Biomedical informatics is a field which mainly concentrates on the effective usage of medical data often provided by the use of technology and people to improve individual health. Currently headache is a significant trouble among human with regard to several causes. Tension, stress, Obesity and medication overuse are the main reasons for the occurrence of headache. The objective of this study is to conduct a systematic review of the effects of biomedical informatics applications with related to headaches. A data frame with 4152 observations on 133 subjects for 9 variables is taken for the study and from this a subset of data on migraine treatments collected by Tammy Kostecki-Dillon consist of headache entries kept in a treatment program. Patients entered the program at different times over a period of about 3 years. It is observed that women are having the high risk of occurrence migraines. This leads to higher degree of occurrence of hypertension and cardiovascular disorder in women than in men.