Is migraine a risk factor for glaucoma?
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Migraine is multifactorial, neurological disorder, characterised by acute headaches which often interferes family and professional life, resulting in a reduced quality of life. Migraine is one of the most expensive neurological disorders, due to high costs of treatment and indirectly through to the lost productivity at work. Epidemiological data show an increased prevalence of migraine in patients with glaucoma, particularly in patients with normal tension glaucoma. So far, there is no evidence, that migraine is the risk factor of primary angle-closure glaucoma. However in differential diagnosis we have to take into consideration, that primary angle-closure glaucoma can be the cause of headaches.
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