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The people involved in the brain infarcts study are a subset of that original group.
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The infarcts were found in the cerebellum, in the lower back of the brain.
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About 20 percent of men had infarcts in the same brain region, regardless of whether they had migraines.
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Overall, 23 percent of women with such migraines had the infarcts, compared with 15 percent of women without them.
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Known as brain infarcts, they're involved in vascular dementia, the second most common form of dementia, after Alzheimer's disease.
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It also seems that the infarcts are separate from the stroke risk, according to Kurth, who also wrote an editorial accompanying the second study.
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Brain scans conducted more than 26 years later suggested that those who had migraines with auras at least monthly in midlife were more likely to have brain infarcts.
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Since the spatial resolution of SPECT is roughly equivalent to the thickness of the heart chamber wall, it can only detect those infarcts that have traversed a good portion of the chamber wall.
BBC: Dr Robert Judd