CephalalgiaPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1177/03331024241237237
Therese Wallentin, Jakob Linnet, Mia B Lichtenstein, Nadja S Hansen, Johanne J Korsbæk, Lisbeth Høgedal, Snorre M Hagen, Laleh D Molander, Rigmor H Jensen, Dagmar Beier
{"title":"The impact of eating disorders on idiopathic intracranial hypertension.","authors":"Therese Wallentin, Jakob Linnet, Mia B Lichtenstein, Nadja S Hansen, Johanne J Korsbæk, Lisbeth Høgedal, Snorre M Hagen, Laleh D Molander, Rigmor H Jensen, Dagmar Beier","doi":"10.1177/03331024241237237","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03331024241237237","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) occurs more frequently in obese females of childbearing age. A link between eating disorders and poor outcome has been suggested but remains unproven.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This prospective field study at two tertiary headache centers included patients with clinically suspected IIH after standardized diagnostic work-up. Eating disorders were evaluated using validated questionnaires (EDQs). Primary outcome was the impact of eating disorders on IIH severity and outcome, secondary outcome was the prevalence and type of eating disorders in IIH compared to controls.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We screened 326 patients; 143 patients replied to the EDQs and were classified as 'IIH' or 'non-IIH' patients. The demographic profile of EDQ-respondents and non-respondents was similar. Presence of an eating disorder did not impact IIH severity (lumbar puncture opening pressure (p = 0.63), perimetric mean deviation (p = 0.18), papilledema (Frisén grad 1-3; p = 0.53)) nor IIH outcome (optic nerve atrophy (p = 0.6), impaired visual fields (p = 0.18)). Moreover, we found no differences in the prevalence and type of eating disorders when comparing IIH with non-IIH patients (p = 0.09).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Eating disorders did not affect IIH severity or outcome. We found the same prevalence and distribution pattern of eating disorders in IIH and non-IIH patients advocating against a direct link between IIH and eating disorders.</p>","PeriodicalId":10075,"journal":{"name":"Cephalalgia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140068241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CephalalgiaPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1177/03331024231223970
Anja Sofie Petersen, Nunu Lund, Karl Meßlinger, Sarah Louise Christensen, Mads Barloese, Niklas Rye Jørgensen, Lisette Kogelman, Rigmor Højland Jensen
{"title":"Reduced plasma calcitonin gene-related peptide level identified in cluster headache: A prospective and controlled study.","authors":"Anja Sofie Petersen, Nunu Lund, Karl Meßlinger, Sarah Louise Christensen, Mads Barloese, Niklas Rye Jørgensen, Lisette Kogelman, Rigmor Højland Jensen","doi":"10.1177/03331024231223970","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03331024231223970","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The role of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) in the cyclic pattern of cluster headache is unclear. To acquire biological insight and to comprehend why only episodic cluster headache responds to CGRP monoclonal antibodies, we examined whether plasma CGRP changes between disease states (i.e. bout, remission and chronic) and controls.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The present study is a prospective case-control study. Participants with episodic cluster headache were sampled twice (bout and remission). Participants with chronic cluster headache and controls were sampled once. CGRP concentrations were measured in plasma with a validated radioimmunoassay.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Plasma was collected from 201 participants diagnosed with cluster headache according to the International Classification of Headache Disorders, 3rd edition, and from 100 age- and sex-matched controls. Overall, plasma CGRP levels were significantly lower in participants with cluster headache compared to controls (<i>p</i> < 0.05). In episodic cluster headache, CGRP levels were higher in bout than in remission (mean difference: 17.1 pmol/L, 95% confidence interval = 9.8-24.3, <i>p</i> < 0.0001). CGRP levels in bout were not different from chronic cluster headache (<i>p</i> = 0.266).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Plasma CGRP is unsuitable as a diagnostic biomarker of cluster headache or its disease states. The identified reduced CGRP levels suggest that CGRPs role in cluster headache is highly complex and future investigations are needed into the modulation of CGRP and its receptors.</p>","PeriodicalId":10075,"journal":{"name":"Cephalalgia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140021056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CephalalgiaPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1177/03331024241233979
Marta Pascual-Mato, Gabriel Gárate, Carlota de Prado-Tejerina, María José García, Beatriz Castro, Vicente González-Quintanilla, Jorge Madera, Javier Crespo, Julio Pascual, Monserrat Rivero
{"title":"Increased prevalence of migraine in women with inflammatory bowel disease: A cross-sectional study.","authors":"Marta Pascual-Mato, Gabriel Gárate, Carlota de Prado-Tejerina, María José García, Beatriz Castro, Vicente González-Quintanilla, Jorge Madera, Javier Crespo, Julio Pascual, Monserrat Rivero","doi":"10.1177/03331024241233979","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03331024241233979","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Some studies have suggested an association between migraine and inflammatory bowel disease. We determined migraine prevalence in a cohort of patients with inflammatory bowel disease.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Patients with inflammatory bowel disease aged 18-65 years were interviewed using an <i>ad hoc</i> headache questionnaire. Those who admitted a history of headache in the last year answered the three questions of the ID-Migraine questionnaire. Those who answered \"yes\" to the three of them were classified as \"definite\" and those who answered \"yes\" to two were classified as \"probable\" migraine.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We interviewed 283 patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Of these, 176 (62.2%) had headache. Fifty-nine (20.8%; 95% CI 16.3-26.0%) met migraine criteria either definite (n = 33; 11.7%; 95% CI 8.2-16.0%) or probable (n = 26; 9.2%; 95% CI 6.1-13.2). When divided by gender, 12 men (9.6%; 95% CI 5.1-16.2%) and 47 women (29.8%; 95% CI 22.8-37.5%) met migraine criteria. The prevalence of migraine was increased in inflammatory bowel disease patients from the current cohort (20.8%) versus that reported for our general population for the same age group (12.6%; p < 0.0001). These differences remained significant in female inflammatory bowel disease patients (29.8% versus 17.2% in our general population; p < 0.0001), but not in males (9.6% in inflammatory bowel disease vs 8.0%; p = 0.30). Seventeen patients with inflammatory bowel disease (6.0%; 95% CI 3.54-9.44%) fulfilled chronic migraine criteria. There were no differences in migraine prevalence by inflammatory bowel disease subtypes.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Migraine prevalence, including chronic migraine, seems to be increased in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. The fact that this association was stronger for women suggests an influence of sex-related factors.</p>","PeriodicalId":10075,"journal":{"name":"Cephalalgia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140012296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CephalalgiaPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1177/03331024241235210
Aikaterini Selntigia, Caterina Exacoustos, Camille Ortoleva, Consuelo Russo, Giulia Monaco, Francesco Giuseppe Martire, Giuseppe Rizzo, David Della-Morte, Nicola Biagio Mercuri, Maria Albanese
{"title":"Correlation between endometriosis and migraine features: Results from a prospective case-control study.","authors":"Aikaterini Selntigia, Caterina Exacoustos, Camille Ortoleva, Consuelo Russo, Giulia Monaco, Francesco Giuseppe Martire, Giuseppe Rizzo, David Della-Morte, Nicola Biagio Mercuri, Maria Albanese","doi":"10.1177/03331024241235210","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03331024241235210","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Endometriosis and migraine frequently coexist, but only a limited number of studies have focused on their mutual association. The aim of our study was to investigate, in untreated women with comorbid endometriosis/adenomyosis and migraine, the correlation between headache features and endometriotic subtypes and their possible relationship with pain severity and disease disability.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Fifty women affected by endometriosis/adenomyosis and migraine matched (1:2) with 100 patients with endometriosis alone and 100 patients with only migraine were recruited and underwent pelvic ultrasound imaging and neurological examination.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Severe adenomyosis, posterior and anterior deep infiltrating endometriosis (p = 0.027, p = 0.0031 and p = 0.029, respectively) occurred more frequently in women with migraine. Dysmenorrhea was the most commonly reported symptom in women with endometriosis and migraine and the mean VAS scores of all typical endometriotic symptoms were significantly higher in the presence of comorbidity. Women with both migraine and endometriosis reported significant higher pain intensity (p = 0.004), higher monthly migraine days (p = 0.042) and increased HIT 6-scores (p = 0.01), compared with those without endometriosis.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our results demonstrated that the co-occurrence of migraine in untreated women with endometriosis is associated with more severe gynecological infiltrations and correlated with increased pain intensity and disease disability.<b>Trial Registration:</b> Protocol number 119/21.</p>","PeriodicalId":10075,"journal":{"name":"Cephalalgia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140021055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CephalalgiaPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1177/03331024241237247
Andreas Vinther Thomsen, Mohammad Al-Mahdi Al-Karagholi, Anders Hougaard, Sisse Rye Ostrowski, Ole Birger Pedersen, Thomas Folkmann Hansen, Messoud Ashina
{"title":"Investigations of the migraine-provoking effect of levcromakalim in patients with migraine with aura.","authors":"Andreas Vinther Thomsen, Mohammad Al-Mahdi Al-Karagholi, Anders Hougaard, Sisse Rye Ostrowski, Ole Birger Pedersen, Thomas Folkmann Hansen, Messoud Ashina","doi":"10.1177/03331024241237247","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03331024241237247","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background/hypothesis: </strong>Experimental provocation studies have yielded important insights in migraine pathophysiology. Levcromakalim has been previously shown to induce migraine-like attacks with and without aura. In this study, we aim to further explore the migraine aura-inducing potential of levcromakalim.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled cross-over study, 27 adult participants with migraine with aura received intravenous infusions of levcromakalim and saline. Headache, aura and associated symptoms were evaluated for 24 hours following administration of the study drug. The primary endpoint was occurrence of migraine-like attacks with or without aura in the 24-hour observation period.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Thirteen participants developed migraine-like attacks on the active day only (P = 0.0098), and four participants developed aura on the active day only (P = 0.68). The median time to onset of migraine-like headache was three hours, and the median time to onset of aura was 27.5 minutes.</p><p><strong>Conclusion/interpretation: </strong>Our findings affirm the potent migraine-inducing effect of levcromakalim. We observed a lower induction-rate of migraine aura than previously reported. Further studies are warranted to identify predictors of migraine aura following levcromakalim.</p><p><strong>Clinicaltrials.gov identifier: </strong>NCT04905654.</p>","PeriodicalId":10075,"journal":{"name":"Cephalalgia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140157678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CephalalgiaPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1177/03331024241228605
Hans Christoph Diener, Arne May
{"title":"New migraine drugs: A critical appraisal of the reason why the majority of migraine patients do not receive an adequate medication.","authors":"Hans Christoph Diener, Arne May","doi":"10.1177/03331024241228605","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03331024241228605","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The last three decades have produced several novel and efficient medications to treat migraine attacks and reduce attack frequency. Additionally, promising approaches for the development of acute therapy and migraine prophylaxis continue to be pursued. At the same time as we witness the development of better and more efficient medications with continuously fewer side effects, we also realise that the high cost of such therapies means that only a minority of migraine patients who could benefit from these medications can afford them. Furthermore, information on cost-effectiveness is still lacking. Here, we compare availiable data, highlight open questions and suggest trials to close knowledge gaps. With good reason, our medicine is evidence-based. However, if this evidence is not collected, our decisions will continue to be based on marketing and assumptions. At the moment, we are not doing justice to our patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":10075,"journal":{"name":"Cephalalgia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140193503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CephalalgiaPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1177/03331024241238153
Frank Porreca, Edita Navratilova, Joe Hirman, Antoinette Maassen van den Brink, Richard B Lipton, David W Dodick
{"title":"Evaluation of outcomes of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)-targeting therapies for acute and preventive migraine treatment based on patient sex.","authors":"Frank Porreca, Edita Navratilova, Joe Hirman, Antoinette Maassen van den Brink, Richard B Lipton, David W Dodick","doi":"10.1177/03331024241238153","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03331024241238153","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Women show increased prevalence and severity of migraine compared to men. Whether small molecule calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor (CGRP-R) antagonists (i.e., gepants) and monoclonal antibodies targeting either the CGRP-R or the CGRP peptide might show sexually dimorphic outcomes for acute and preventive therapy has not been established.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a subpopulation analysis of available published data from FDA reviews to evaluate potential sex differences in the response rates of ubrogepant, rimegepant and zavegepant for acute migraine therapy. Available data from FDA reviews of erenumab, fremanezumab, galcanezumab and eptinezumab, approved CGRP-R and CGRP monoclonal antibodies and of atogepant were examined for prevention outcomes based on patient sex. Preventive outcomes were analyzed separately for patients with episodic migraine and chronic migraine.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In women, the three approved gepants produced statistically significant drug effects regardless of dose tested on the FDA mandated co-primary endpoints, the proportion of patients achieving two-hour pain-freedom and the proportion of patients free of their most bothersome symptom at two hours post-dose. In women, the average placebo-subtracted two-hour pain-freedom proportion was 9.5% (CI: 7.4 to 11.6) and the average numbers needed to treat was 11. The free from most bothersome symptom at two hours outcomes were also significant in women. The gepant drugs did not reach statistically significant effects on the two-hour pain-freedom endpoint in the men, with an average drug effect of 2.8% (CI: -2.5 to 8.2) and an average number needed to treat of 36. For freedom from most bothersome symptom at two hours post-dose endpoint, differences were not significant in male patients. The treatment effect in each of the gepant studies was always numerically greater in women than in men. In evaluation of prevention outcomes with the antibodies or atogepant using the change from the specified primary endpoint (e.g., monthly migraine days), the observed treatment effect for episodic migraine patients almost always favored drug over placebo in both women and men. For chronic migraine patients the treatment effects of antibodies were similar in men and women and always favored the drug treated group.<b>Conclusion/Interpretation:</b> Small molecule CGRP-R antagonists are effective in acute migraine therapy in women but available data do not demonstrate effectiveness in men. CGRP-targeting therapies are effective for migraine prevention in both male and female episodic migraine patients but possible sex differences remain uncertain. In male and female chronic migraine patients, CGRP/CGRP-R antibodies were similarly effective. The data highlight possible differential effects of CGRP targeted therapies in different patient populations and the need for increased understanding of CGRP neurobiology in men and women.</p","PeriodicalId":10075,"journal":{"name":"Cephalalgia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140109505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CephalalgiaPub Date : 2024-02-29DOI: 10.1177/03331024241229389
{"title":"Thanks to Reviewers","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/03331024241229389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03331024241229389","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10075,"journal":{"name":"Cephalalgia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140005789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CephalalgiaPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1177/03331024241235156
Cristina Tassorelli, Kateryna Onishchenko, Rashmi B Halker Singh, Molly Duan, Laure Dupont-Benjamin, Matthew Hemstock, Corey Voller, Peter McAllister, Stephanie J Nahas, Pranav Gandhi, Jessica Ailani
{"title":"Comparative efficacy, quality of life, safety, and tolerability of atogepant and rimegepant in migraine prevention: A matching-adjusted indirect comparison analysis.","authors":"Cristina Tassorelli, Kateryna Onishchenko, Rashmi B Halker Singh, Molly Duan, Laure Dupont-Benjamin, Matthew Hemstock, Corey Voller, Peter McAllister, Stephanie J Nahas, Pranav Gandhi, Jessica Ailani","doi":"10.1177/03331024241235156","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03331024241235156","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Comparative evaluations of preventive migraine treatments can help inform clinical decision making for managing migraine in clinical practice.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>An anchored matching-adjusted indirect comparison analysis was conducted using pooled participant-level data from two phase 3 atogepant trials (ADVANCE and PROGRESS) and one phase 2/3 rimegepant trial (BHV3000-305) to evaluate the relative efficacy and safety/tolerability of atogepant and rimegepant as preventive migraine treatments. Participants receiving atogepant 60 mg once daily, rimegepant orally disintegrating tablet 75 mg once every other day, and placebo were included. Only participants meeting the BHV3000-305 inclusion/exclusion criteria were analyzed: ≥6 monthly migraine days and ≤18 monthly headache days at baseline. The primary efficacy assessment of interest was change in monthly migraine days across weeks 1-12.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There were 252 participants in the atogepant group and 348 in the rimegepant group. Across weeks 1-12, atogepant 60 mg demonstrated a significantly greater reduction in mean monthly migraine days compared with rimegepant 75 mg (mean difference [95% CI]: -1.65 [-2.49, -0.81]; <i>p</i> < 0.001). Both atogepant and rimegepant demonstrated similar safety/tolerability profiles.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In this matching-adjusted indirect comparison analysis, oral atogepant 60 mg once daily demonstrated a significantly greater reduction in monthly migraine days compared with rimegepant 75 mg orally disintegrating tablet once every other day.</p>","PeriodicalId":10075,"journal":{"name":"Cephalalgia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139971072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CephalalgiaPub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1177/03331024231223979
Janu Thuraiaiyah, Håkan Ashina, Rune H Christensen, Haidar M Al-Khazali, Astrid Wiggers, Faisal Mohammad Amin, Timothy J Steiner, Messoud Ashina
{"title":"Premonitory symptoms in migraine: A REFORM Study.","authors":"Janu Thuraiaiyah, Håkan Ashina, Rune H Christensen, Haidar M Al-Khazali, Astrid Wiggers, Faisal Mohammad Amin, Timothy J Steiner, Messoud Ashina","doi":"10.1177/03331024231223979","DOIUrl":"10.1177/03331024231223979","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Estimates of proportions of people with migraine who report premonitory symptoms vary greatly among previous studies. Our aims were to establish the proportion of patients reporting premonitory symptoms and its dependency on the enquiry method. Additionally, we investigated the impact of premonitory symptoms on disease burden using Headache Impact Test (HIT-6), Migraine Disability Assessment (MIDAS) and World Health Organization Disability Assessment 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0), whilst investigating how various clinical factors influenced the likelihood of reporting premonitory symptoms.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In a cross-sectional study, premonitory symptoms were assessed among 632 patients with migraine. Unprompted enquiry was used first, followed by a list of 17 items (prompted). Additionally, we obtained clinical characteristics through a semi-structured interview.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Prompted enquiry resulted in a greater proportion reporting premonitory symptoms than unprompted (69.9% vs. 43.0%; <i>p</i> < 0.001) and with higher symptom counts (medians 2, interquartile range = 0-6 vs. 1, interquartile range = 0-1; <i>p</i> < 0.001). The number of symptoms correlated weakly with HIT-6 (<i>ρ</i> = 0.14; <i>p</i> < 0.001) and WHODAS scores (<i>ρ</i> = 0.09; <i>p = </i>0.041). Reporting postdromal symptoms or triggers increased the probability of reporting premonitory symptoms, whereas monthly migraine days decreased it.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The use of a standardized and optimized method for assessing premonitory symptoms is necessary to estimate their prevalence and to understand whether and how they contribute to disease burden.</p>","PeriodicalId":10075,"journal":{"name":"Cephalalgia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139650317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}