A comparative study on white matter lesions and cognitive impairment in migraineurs with and without aura / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the relationship between white matter lesions(WML) and cognitive impairment in migraine with and without aura.Methods 56 migraine without aura patients (MwoA group),22 migraine with aura patients(MA group) and 30 normal controls were recruited.All of them were performed head MRI examination and were evaluated by operational definitions of ARWMC and Mattis Dementia Ratiing Scale(DRS),and compare among three groups,discuss the relationship between WML and cognitive impairment.Results (1) Compared with control group,the occurrence rate of WML in MA group was significantly higher(40.9％ vs 13.3％,x2=22.74,P＜0.01).The OD-ARWMC score was significantly higher in both MA and MwoA groups((0.73±l.12) vs (0.13±0.35),t=2.76,P＜0.01;(0.36±0.67) vs (0.13±0.35),t=1.75,P＜0.05).Compared with MwoA group,the occurrence rate of WML and the OD-ARWMC score of MA group was significantly higher(t=22.80,P＜0.01;t=1.79,P＜0.05).(2) During the attack period,the DRS total scale and its 5 factors (attention,initiation/perseveration,concept formation,construction and memory) were significantly lower in both MwoA and MA group(P＜0.05 or 0.01) than control group,while the DRS total scale and its two factors (attention,concept formation) of MA group were significantly lower than that of MwoA group (P＜ 0.01).During the intermission period,the concept formation and memory scale in MA group was significantly lower than control group(P＜0.05),only memory factor in MwoA group was significantly lower than control group(P＜0.05),while the initiation/perseveration factor scale of MA group was significantly lower than MwoA group(P＜0.05).(3) There Was a negative correlation between OD-ARWMC scale and the total DRS scale as well as its three factors (attention,concept formation,memory)during attack period in MA group(r=-0.584,P＜0.01;r=-0.465,P＜0.05;r=-0.558,P＜0.01;r=-0.439,P＜0.05).There was a negative correlation between OD-ARWMC scale and the total DRS scale as well as concept formation factor during attack period in MwoA group (r=-0.328,P＜ 0.05;r =-0.276,P＜ 0.05).Conclusion Migraine patients may have white matter lesions and cognitive impairment,especially in MA patients and during attack period.