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| Originally Posted by RobbieS I have never once suffered from a migraine. |
AIUI migraines are a common factor with people found to have PFOs, and it is specifically migraines with aura. You can have a PFO without the migraines and you can have migraines without a PFO. The likelyhood of there being a PFO is higher when there is migraine with aura.
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If 10% of the population have a PFO, then why would this shoot up to 33% in the case of divers?
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I thought the commonly quoted number was 25% (1 in 4) of the general population with slightly higher incidence in males.