Towards improved migraine management: Determining potential trigger factors in individual patients

What is it about?

Individuals with migraine are not likely to have similar trigger attack profiles, according to data just published online in Cephalagia, the official journal of the International Headache Society. The new findings unexpectedly indicate that the majority of individuals with migraine have highly individualized sets of dietary, environmental, behavioral and hormonal factors that may act as triggers of their migraines.

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Why is it important?

The discovery that the majority of people with migraine may have “unique” trigger combinations further underscores the need for management and treatments expressly tailored to individuals, as opposed to approaches based on the assumption that the vast majority of migraineurs have similar pathologies.