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Risk of Bell Palsy in Patients with Migraine

Publish date:: June 18, 2019

Patients with migraine had an increased risk of Bell palsy, a new study found. A total of 45,164 migraine patients were matched for age, sex, income, region of residence, hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia and compared with 180,656 controls. Researchers found:

Bell palsy occurred in 0.6% of the migraine group and 0.5% of the control group.
The adjusted hazard ratio of Bell palsy was 1.16 in the migraine group compared with the control group.
Among age subgroups, migraine patients aged ≥30 years and <60 years had an increased risk of Bell palsy.

Citation:

Kim SY, et al. Increased risk of Bell palsy in patient with migraine: A longitudinal follow-up study. [Published online ahead of print May 2019]. Medicine (Baltimore). doi:10.1097/MD.0000000000015764.

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