Females suffering from migraines are more predisposed to rosacea

According to a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, females having migraines are more predisposed to the risk of rosacea. Julia Spoendlin, from the University of Basel in Switzerland and colleagues used the United Kingdom-based General Practice Research Database to identify patients with incident rosacea between 1995 and 2009and matched rosacea-free control subjects. The researchers observed a small overall association between rosacea and migraine in women but not in men. In female migraineurs aged 50 to 59 years, the effect was more pronounced. The study also proves that female triptan users also exhibited slightly increasing risk estimates with increasing age, with the highest odds ratio seen in women aged 60 years and older. “We observed a slightly increased risk for female migraineurs to develop rosacea, particularly in women with severe migraine aged 50 years or older”, the authors write.