A new research has suggested that women suffering from multiple sclerosis (MS) are prone to migraine.

The research will be presented during the American Academy of Neurology's 62nd Annual Meeting in Toronto April 10 to April 17.

Study author Ilya Kister, MD, with New York University School of Medicine and a member of the American Academy of Neurology, said, "While having a history of migraine diagnosis was linked to MS, women with migraine need to know that over 99 percent of them will never develop MS, thus having migraine should definitely not be a reason to worry about getting MS."

"More research is needed since it''s still not known whether migraine is a risk factor for developing MS or if it is a condition that occurs at the same time as MS," Dr. Kister added.

The research comprised 116,678 women who were part of the Nurses' Health Study II.

Out of these women, 18,000 had been suffering from migraine at the beginning of the research.

The participants were traced every 2 years for a period of sixteen years. During the research, 375 partakers had MS. Out of those, 82 had reported in the starting that they had been diagnosed by a physician with migraine.

The research discovered that participants with a migraine diagnosis at the beginning of the study were 47% more likely to build up MS as compared to women without a diagnosis.

The study outcomes were the same regardless of age, where they lived, Scandinavian ancestry, vitamin D levels, smoking status and body mass index. (With Input from Agencies)