Precipitating Factors in Migraine: a Retrospective Review of 494 Patients

Overview

Journal Headache

Publisher Wiley

Specialties Neurology
Psychiatry

Date 1994 Apr 1

PMID 8014037

Citations 45

Authors

L Robbins

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Abstract

The predominance of certain triggers for migraine was assessed in 494 migraine patients. Stress (62%) was the most frequently cited precipitant. Weather changes (43%), missing a meal (40%), and bright sunlight (38%) were also prominent factors. Sexual activity (5%) was the precipitant cited by the least number of patients. Significant differences were found between men and women in their responses to weather changes, perfumes, cigarette smoke, missing a meal, and sexual activity. Spring was cited by 14% of patients as a time for increased migraine attacks, followed by fall (13%), summer (11%), and winter (7%).

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