Internal medicine
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The importance of psychiatric comorbidity in migraine has long been recognized. There is a growing body of evidence that these psychiatric comorbidities share diverse epidemiological properties, pathophysiological mechanisms, and treatment response. The prevalence of psychiatric comorbidities is high in patients with medication-overuse headache (MOH). ⋯ Affective disorders diagnosed in migraine patients might later progress to MOH. In contrast, migraine patients without MOH and healthy subjects had a similar prevalence of mood disorders.
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LDL cholesterol is not usually considered as a component of metabolic syndrome (MetS) but rather it is associated with MetS components. ⋯ LDL cholesterol was more strongly associated with MetS in Japanese women than in men. The correlation between LDL cholesterol and blood pressure was significant in women, but not in men.