Association ABO blood group with migraine among undergraduate health sciences student in UiTM Puncak Alam / Nur Hassimah Ab Wahab

Migraine is a chronic neurological disease, characterized by lasting attack of heavy headache accompanied with nausea, sensitivity towards light and noise and visual auras. This significant health problem give a greatly impact especially among university student. The present study was performed to assess the prevalence and association between ABO blood group and migraine among undergraduate Health Sciences’ students, UiTM Puncak Alam Campus. A cross-sectional study was carried out on 112 students from March 2016 to June 2016. All the subjects were answered the Migraine Screening Questionnaire (MS-Q) where ABO blood group and Migraine status were determined. Chi-square test was used to determine the association. The result from this study depict distribution pattern of ABO blood groups, the most prevalence was O (46.4%) >A (21.4%) > B (21.4%) > AB (10.7%). Migraine of ABO blood group show higher incidence on O blood group (44.4%) followed by group A (25.9%) group B (22.2%) and group AB (7.4%). Statistically significant difference was not found between Migraine and ABO blood groups (p > 0.05). In conclusion, the blood group O shows more susceptible to migraine among Faculty of Health Sciences’ student. There is no association between ABO blood groups and migraine.