The Relationship between Migraine and Rheumatoid Arthritis

Abstract

This study aims to find out the relationship between rheumatoid arthritis and migraine with the Study period Full year from 23-7-2020 to 1-8-2021. In this study, demographic information and data were collected from different hospitals in Iraq, where 88 patients were collected, divided into two groups (49 patients’ group – 39 control group). The study aimed to know the relationship between migraine and rheumatoid arthritis. The results which found in this study (the most frequent complications in this study were depression for patients with episodic migraine for 11 patients, followed by Anxiety for eight patients. As for the migraine with aura patients, severe complications were found that lead to Stroke were a recurrence of 5 patients, and in general, the prevalence rate of Stroke were for 13 patients). By using the Person correlation between the type of migraine with RA   found a positive relationship with Pearson Correlation*0.334 at p Value 0.038 to this study, and when comparing this relationship with the control group, an inverse relationship was found with Pearson Correlation -0.119at p value 0.472. We concluded in this study there is a two-way relationship between migraines and rheumatoid arthritis.

Keywords

Rheumatoid arthritis, migraine, RDA, CRP, BMI, Person correlation, BMI