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Migraine, Headache, and Obesity – What’s the Link?

by James on 6 December 2010

There doesn’t seem to be much doubt that there’s a connection between obesity and migraine.  Various studies suggest that weight gain, obesity, eating patterns, and so on, are risk factors for migraine and chronic daily headache. Now once again, we do have the chicken-and-the-egg question.  Could the migraine or CDH actually be causing the weight gain? [...]

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Migraine and Tension Type Headache Triggers in Adolescents (new study)

by James on 22 June 2010

A study of 1260 students in Germany set out to find out if certain adolescent behaviours were contributing to migraine or tension-type headache (TTH) attacks. The researchers diagnosed students in grades 10 and 11 (ages 14-20) with either migraine, tension-type headache, and migraine + TTH.  It turns out that about 83.1% had had at least [...]

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New Migraine Topamax study: Adolescents

by James on 16 March 2009

The latest migraine Topamax study was published in Pediatrics this month.  It was a study of migraine patients age 12-17. The children and teen crowd have had far fewer migraine studies done.  Last year we talked about Topamax for children; this study focused on the older subset – adolescents.  Here’s what they found: As you [...]

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