title: Course of migraine during pregnancy among migraine sufferers before pregnancy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the course of migraine without aura and migraine with aura during pregnancy and factors that could influence its course, among migraine sufferers before pregnancy.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross sectional study undertaken at the IMIP, Brazil. Out of 686 consecutively assisted women, at the first postnatal week, 266 were identified as migraine sufferers before pregnancy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There was migraine remission in 35.4%, 76.8% and 79.3% among migraine without aura sufferers and 20.7%, 58.6% and 65.5% among those with migraine with aura, respectively in the first, second and third trimesters. Statistically significant difference was found when the first trimester was compared with the second and third trimesters. The factors associated with the presence of migraine during pregnancy were: multiparity, menstrually related migraine without aura prior to pregnancy and illness during pregnancy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The study contributed to elucidate the course of migraine during pregnancy in migraine sufferers prior to pregnancy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuropsiquiatry of the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife PE, Brazil. wserva@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Waldmiro Antônio Diégues
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Serva
authors.forename: Vilneide Maria Santos Braga Diégues
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Serva
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: de Fátima Costa Caminha
authors.forename: José Natal
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Figueiroa
authors.forename: Emídio Cavalcanti
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Albuquerque
authors.forename: Gabriel Braga Diégues
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Serva
authors.forename: Marcela Patrícia Macêdo
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Belo
authors.forename: Malaquias Batista
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Filho
authors.forename: Marcelo Moraes
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Valença
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008881:Migraine Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D020325:Migraine with Aura / Q000503:physiopathology*; D020326:Migraine without Aura / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011264:Pregnancy Trimesters / Q000502:physiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors