Effect of migraine severity on the retinal nerve fiber layer thickness

Abstract

In context, migraines are main headaches characterised by recurrent, episodic throbbing pain that may last anywhere from a few hours to a few days. More than a billion people (nearly 14 percent of the global population) suffer from migraines, making it one of the leading causes of disability and a major social and economic burden, as reported by the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. The primary purpose of this research was to analyse the incidence rate and clinical features of migraine. Methods: The research was conducted as a cross-sectional, prospective, observational study in the Ophthalmology clinic of the Kafr-El Sheikh university hospital. Based on the International Classification of Headache Disorders, Third Revision (ICHD-3) criteria for migraine with aura and migraine without aura classified considering MIDAS into 3 groups, 90 patients (15-50 years old) were included in the research. A total of 30 patients who only experience minor headaches made up Group [1]. Thirty people who suffer from mild migraines make up Group [2]. Migraine sufferers, n = 30 (Group 3). The results of this research showed that demographic or other patient factors were not significantly related to migraine severity. In this dissertation, we showed that the frequency of migraine attacks, the prevalence of chronic migraine, and the length of illness all increased significantly with the intensity of the headache. All of these correlations were statistically significant at the 0.001 level. When looking at instances with a p-value 0.001, it was discovered that migraine symptoms occurred in a significantly larger proportion of the extreme cases. The proportion of patients with status migrainosus lasting more than 72 hours rose significantly with the severity of migraine, as did the frequency of migraine attacks, the number of years a patient had been suffering from migraines, and the total time he or she had been sick from migraines. In extreme circumstances, the migraine symptoms were more common.