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Articles Tagged With: migraine

  • A Comparison of Acute Migraine Therapies Using Big Data

    In a big data-driven observational study that compared 3 million treated migraine attacks captured from a migraine diary smartphone app, triptans were found to be the most efficacious treatment class. Among the triptans, eletriptan had the highest rate of success. Consistent with clinical practice and recent consensus statements, the success of triptans was followed by ergots and antiemetics.

  • A Comparison of Acute Migraine Therapies Using Big Data

    In a big data-driven observational study that compared 3 million treated migraine attacks captured from a migraine diary smartphone app, triptans were found to be the most efficacious treatment class. Among the triptans, eletriptan had the highest rate of success. Consistent with clinical practice and recent consensus statements, the success of triptans was followed by ergots and antiemetics.

  • Role of the Hypothalamus in Migraine and Cluster Headaches

    The hypothalamus plays a regulatory role in both migraine and cluster headaches. However, the two headache types have distinctive clinical features, characteristic areas of resting state functional connectivity on magnetic resonance imaging, and different genetic chronobiological associations.

  • Zavegepant Nasal Spray (Zavzpret)

    Zavegepant can be prescribed to treat migraine, with or without aura, in adults.

  • Influence of Vitamin Intake on Migraine Prevalence

    Among participants experiencing severe headaches or migraine, those with severe headaches also reported a lower intake of thiamine and riboflavin, based on 24-hour recall of food intake.

  • How Vitamin Intake Affects Migraine Prevalence

    In a large population-based survey, 21.6% of participants reported having severe headaches or migraine. Those reporting severe headaches also reported a lower intake of thiamine and riboflavin, based on 24-hour recall of food intake. There also was an inverse relationship between thiamine intake and reports of severe headaches.

  • Influence of Vitamin Intake on the Prevalence of Migraine

    In a large population-based survey, 21.6% of participants reported having severe headaches or migraine. Those reporting severe headaches also reported a lower intake of thiamine and riboflavin, based on 24-hour recall of food intake. There also was an inverse relationship between thiamine intake and reports of severe headaches.

  • Managing Migraine in the Emergency Department

    When a patient with a self-identified migraine presents to the emergency department, the emergency physician is tasked with sorting through the history to ensure that the diagnosis is correct, to reasonably exclude other causes of an acute headache, initiate treatment, assess the response, and make an appropriate disposition for the patient, with referral to primary care or specialists as needed. This article will focus on the acute treatment of migraines in the emergency department.

  • CGRP Antagonists: What Is Their Role in Headache Therapy?

    Migraine is a highly prevalent and debilitating condition that causes significant impairment in quality of life. Preventive therapy for migraine is indicated when migraine attacks interfere with quality of life or are frequent and debilitating. The ability to prevent migraine with pharmacologic therapy has long been a goal of both patients and their physicians. The ideal preventive (prophylactic) migraine treatment should be effective, safe, and well tolerated, with few or no contraindications, few or no drug interactions, safety in pregnancy and breastfeeding, and dosed in a manner to ease adherence.

  • Atogepant Tablets (Qulipta)

    Atogepant can be prescribed to prevent episodic migraine in adults.