Alcoholic Drinks as Triggers in Primary Headaches
| Autor: | Alessandro Panconesi, Stefania Mugnai, Leonello Guidi, Maria Letizia Bartolozzi, Michela Franchini |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Alcohol Drinking Tension headache Aura Migraine Disorders Temperance Migraine with Aura Population Lower risk Young Adult Sex Factors Chronic Migraine Statistical significance Internal medicine Confidence Intervals Prevalence Humans Medicine Psychiatry education education.field_of_study Ethanol business.industry Tension-Type Headache Age Factors Headache Central Nervous System Depressants General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Migraine with aura Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Migraine Female Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Pain Medicine. 14:1254-1259 |
| ISSN: | 1526-4637 1526-2375 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/pme.12127 |
| Popis: | Objective. This project aims to investigate the role of alcoholic drinks (ADs) as triggers for primary headaches. Methods. Patients followed in the Headache Centre and presenting with migraine without aura, migraine with aura (MA), chronic migraine (CM), and tension-type headache (TH) were asked if their headache was precipitated by AD and also about their alcohol habits. Individual characteristics and drink habits were evaluated within two binary logistic models. Results. About one half (49.7%) of patients were abstainers, 17.6% were habitual consumers, and 32.5% were occasional consumers. Out of 448 patients, only 22 (4.9%), all with migraine, reported AD as a trigger factor. None of 44 patients with MA and none of 47 patients with TH reported AD as a trigger factor. Among those patients with migraine who consume AD, only 8% reported that AD can precipitate their headache. Multivariate analyses showed that AD use, both occasional and habitual, is unrelated to TH. Moreover, analysis performed among migraine patients, points out that occasional and habitual drinkers have a lower risk of presenting with CM than abstainers, although statistical significance occurred only among occasional drinkers. Only 3% of migraine patients who abstain from AD reported that they do not consume alcohol because it triggers their headache. Conclusion. Our study shows that AD acts as headache triggers in a small percentage of migraine patients. Differing from some prior studies, our data suggest that AD do not trigger MA and TH attacks. Moreover, the percentage of abstainers in our sample is higher compared with that reported in general population surveys. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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