Relationship between air mass type and emergency department visits for migraine headache across the Triangle region of North Carolina

Elcik, Christopher; Fuhrmann, Christopher M.; Mercer, Andrew E.; Davis, Robert E.

doi:10.1007/s00484-017-1432-z

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“…Barometric data confirmed that the frequency of headaches increased significantly just before barometric depression, such as in a typhoon. Some studies, however, have not found a significant correlation between meteorological changes and migraine 48 . This may be because only a subpopulation of migraine sufferers is sensitive to weather and atmospheric pressure changes, as we have observed in our clinical practice and in other studies.…”

Section: Evaluation Of the Hypothesissupporting

confidence: 39%

A proposed association between subjective nonpulsatile tinnitus and migraine

Lee

Abouzari

Akbarpour

et al. 2022

World j. otorhinolaryngol.-head neck surg.

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Objective: Tinnitus is defined as the perception of sound in the absence of an external source. We propose the hypothesis that migraine can cause exacerbation of tinnitus in some patients.Methods: English literature from PubMed has been reviewed. Results:Studies have reported a high prevalence of cochlear symptoms in patients with migraine headaches and up to 45% of tinnitus patients have been shown to concomitantly suffer from migraine. Both conditions are thought to stem from central nervous system disturbances, involving disruption of the auditory and trigeminal nerve pathways. One proposed mechanism of this association is the modulation of sound sensitivity by trigeminal nerve activation of the auditory cortex during migraine attacks, resulting in tinnitus fluctuation in some patients. Increased brain and inner ear vascular permeability resulting from trigeminal nerve inflammation, can also cause observed headache and auditory symptoms. Tinnitus and migraine also share a number of symptom triggers including stress, sleep disturbances, and dietary factors. These shared features may help explain promising results of migraine therapies for the treatment of tinnitus. Conclusion:Given the complex association between tinnitus and migraine, further investigation is needed to identify the underlying mechanisms and determine the optimal treatment strategies for managing migraine-related tinnitus patients.

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Section: Evaluation Of the Hypothesissupporting

confidence: 39%

A proposed association between subjective nonpulsatile tinnitus and migraine

Lee

Abouzari

Akbarpour

et al. 2022

World j. otorhinolaryngol.-head neck surg.

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“…Yilmaz et al in a review of 3,491 patients admitted to the ED for migraine found significant associations with high temperatures and low humidity (78). Elcik et al reported increased ED visits for migraine on days with tropical air masses over a 7 year period in the Raleigh-Durham metro area (79). Villeneuve et al, on the other hand, found no significant relationship between 4,039 ED visits for migraine and any weather condition (80).…”

Section: Weather Triggers In Migrainementioning

confidence: 99%

Triggers, Protectors, and Predictors in Episodic Migraine

Marmura

2018

Curr Pain Headache Rep

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“…We therefore analyze the complete dataset from a meteorological perspective, using the techniques of synoptic climatology and compositing to reveal the weather patterns (if any) associated with painful days. The synoptic climatology approach has been used to examine migraine headaches (Piorecky et al 1997;Cooke et al 2000;Elcik et al 2017), but has not been used more widely for chronic pain in general or musculoskeletal pain, specifically. These techniques allow us to use much more of the full dataset using a different methodology, one that is familiar to meteorologists, and allows us to visualize the synoptic-scale weather patterns associated with pain.…”

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Weather Patterns Associated with Pain in Chronic-Pain Sufferers

Schultz

Beukenhorst

Yimer

et al. 2020

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

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The belief that weather influences people’s health has been prevalent for millennia. Recent studies on the relationship between weather and pain for those who suffer from chronic pain remain indeterminate, with some studies finding strong effects and others finding no effects; most studies face limitations to their study design or dataset size. To address these limitations, a U.K.-wide smartphone study Cloudy with a Chance of Pain was conducted over 15 months with 10,584 citizen scientists who suffer from chronic pain, producing the largest dataset both in duration and number of participants. Compared to other similar citizen-science studies, our retention of participants was substantially better, with 15% still entering data nearly every day after 200 days. Analysis of the dataset using synoptic climatology and compositing revealed the daily weather associated with a prevalence of high pain and low pain across the population. Specifically, our results indicate that the top 10% of days with a high percentage of participants (about 20%) experiencing a pain event (represented here by a +1 change or greater in their pain level on a 5-point scale; referred to as a high-pain day) were associated with below-normal pressure, above-normal humidity, higher precipitation rate, and stronger wind. In contrast, the bottom 10% of days with a small percentage of participants (about 10%) experiencing a pain event (a low-pain day) were associated with above-normal pressure, below-normal humidity, lower precipitation rate, and weaker wind. Thus, these synoptic weather patterns support the beliefs of many participants who said that low pressure—and its accompanying weather—was associated with a pain event.

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Relationship between air mass type and emergency department visits for migraine headache across the Triangle region of North Carolina

Cited by 12 publications

References 23 publications

A proposed association between subjective nonpulsatile tinnitus and migraine

A proposed association between subjective nonpulsatile tinnitus and migraine

Triggers, Protectors, and Predictors in Episodic Migraine

Weather Patterns Associated with Pain in Chronic-Pain Sufferers

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