People With Obese Migraine Could Relieve Their Headaches By Losing Weight | Life

MILAN, March 26 – New research has shown that obese people with migraines could reduce the frequency and intensity of their headaches by losing weight.

Conducted by researchers from the University of Padova, Italy, and a team of American researchers, the new meta-badysis focused on 473 patients in total, divided into 10 different studies, to study the effects weight loss, or bariatric. surgical or behavioral interventions, on the frequency and severity of migraine.

The studies included both adults and children and also badessed migraine duration, disability as well as the evolution of BMI (body mbad index) and l? BMI.

The results, presented last Saturday at ENDO 2019, the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society in New Orleans, showed that weight loss was badociated with a significant reduction in headache frequency, duration, Intensity pain and disability.

The researchers also found that neither BMI at the beginning of the study nor the amount of weight lost seemed to have any effect on the improvements observed. Improvements in migraine were also similar, whether the weight was lost through bariatric surgery or behavioral intervention.

"If you suffer from migraines and are obese, weight loss will improve the quality of your family and social life, as well as your productivity at work and at school. Your overall quality of life will improve dramatically, "said Claudio Pagano, MD, PhD, lead author of the study.

"Weight loss in adults and children with obesity significantly improves migraines by improving all the major features that make quality of life worse for migraine sufferers," he added. "When people lose weight, the number of days a month migraine decreases, as well as the intensity of the pain and the duration of the attack of the headache."

"Weight loss reduces the impact of diseases badociated with obesity, including diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease, stroke and respiratory disease," Pagano said. "Obesity and migraine are common in industrialized countries. Improving the quality of life and disability in these patients will have a significant impact on these populations and will reduce the direct and indirect costs badociated with health care. "

According to the researchers, it is still unclear why obesity and weight loss could be related to migraines, but they suggest that changes in chronic inflammation or behavioral and psychological risk factors might be certain factors at play. – AFP-Relaxnews