ABSTRACT
Objective:To investigate the correlation between migraine and overall burden of cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD).Methods:Migraine patients who visited the headache clinic of Jiangyin People's Hospital from January 2021 to October 2021 were selected as the case group, and healthy people who had no previous primary headache of any type and matched age and sex in the same period were selected as the control group. Various CSVD phenotypes, including vasogenic lacuna, white matter hyperintensities (WMHs), cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) and enlarged perivascular space (EPVS) were detected by the multimodal MRI, and the overall burden score of CSVD was calculated. The detection rates of CSVD and its phenotypes and the overall burden of CSVD were compared between the case group and the control group. The subjects with CSVD were divided into mild group, moderate group and severe group according to the overall burden score of CSVD. The independent influencing factors of the overall burden of CSVD were identified by the ordinal multi-classification logistic regression model. Results:A total of 109 migraine patients and 100 healthy controls were enrolled. The detection rate of CSVD (65.13% vs. 46.00%; P=0.005) and the proportion of patients with severe CSVD overall burden (24.77% vs. 10.00%; P=0.005) in the case group were significantly higher than those in the control group. In terms of specific CSVD phenotypes, the detection rates of WMHs (48.62% vs. 33.00%; P=0.022) and CMBs (35.80% vs. 19.00%; P=0.007) in the case group were significantly higher than those in the control group, while there were no significant differences in vasogenic lacuna and moderate to severe EPVS. Univariate analysis showed that the overall burden of CSVD was significantly associated with age, migraine, hypertension, baseline diastolic blood pressure, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and glycosylated hemoglobin (all P<0.05). Multivariate logistic analysis showed that age (odds ratio [ OR] 3.731, 95% confidence interval [ CI] 1.051-1.217; P=0.001), migraine ( OR 2.812, 95% CI 1.045-5.124; P=0.012), hypertension ( OR 2.112, 95% CI 1.525-4.021; P=0.032), and LDL-C ( OR 2.512, 95% CI 1.541-4.312; P=0.023) were independently associated with the overall burden of CSVD. Conclusions:The detection rate of CSVD in migraine patients is higher than that in the general population, especially WMHs and CMBs. Migraine is independently associated with the overall burden of CSVD.