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Pvo Heart Defect Migraines
Researchers in Florida have completed a new study that appears to debunk the theory that patent foramen ovale (PFO) can cause migraines. Investigators say that though the prevalence of either condition is about 15 percent, the two are only rarely present in the same person. In fact, the new study found that only two percent of their study's subjects had both PFO and migraines.
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