Weight-loss surgery can alleviate migraine in severely obese individuals, a small observational study finds.
After undergoing bariatric surgery obese migraine sufferers experienced significant improvements in frequency and severity of their headaches, the study of 24 obese people with migraine found.
The average number of headache days decreased from 11.1 to 6.7, after losing an average of 49.4% excess weight.
Patients who had greater weight loss were more likely to experience a 50% or greater reduction in headache frequency, regardless of the type of surgery performed.
Headache improvement occurred post-operatively despite the fact that 70% of participants were still obese, suggesting that weight loss can help alleviate migraine in the absence of resolution of obesity, the study authors wrote in...
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