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Are Migraines Hereditary?

Are Migraines Hereditary? (0:38)

Family history plays a role in migraine, but due to misdiagnoses, the connection isn't always obvious. In this video, Emily Rubenstein Engel, MD, of the Dalessio Headache Center Scripps Clinic, discusses heredity and migraines.

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Yes, typically migraines are hereditary, almost always there is a family history. Sometimes it's difficult to extract the history because by mum or dad or sister have been told that they have sinus headache but if you can extract history of headache in another family member, it's further reassuring that what you're dealing with is migraines because it is typically inherited..