ReviewCurrent pain and headache reports2011
Alcohol and migraine: what should we tell patients?
Review in Current pain and headache reports, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.
- Association between wine consumption and migraine: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2025Pooled it
- Alcohol Use as a Comorbidity and Precipitant of Primary Headache: Review and Meta-analysis.Current pain and headache reports · 2017Pooled it
- Enhancing cognitive-behavioural therapy for recurrent headache: design of a randomised controlled trial.BMC neurology · 2014Trial
- Gender differences in the association between lifestyle behaviors and musculoskeletal disorders among radiology residents in China.European radiology · 2026Article
- Migraine and Alcohol-Is It Really That Harmful?Nutrients · 2025Review
- Metabolic Dysfunction and Dietary Interventions in Migraine Management: The Role of Insulin Resistance and Neuroinflammation-A Narrative and Scoping Review.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Forecasting migraine attacks by managing daily lifestyle: a systematic review as a basis to develop predictive algorithms.Pain reports · 2025Article
- Poor healthy lifestyle and life's essential 8 are associated with higher risk of new-onset migraine: a prospective cohort study.The journal of headache and pain · 2024Article
- A phenome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation study of alcohol use variants in a diverse cohort comprising over 3 million individuals.EBioMedicine · 2024Article
- Inflammo-immune perspective on the association of eight migraine risk factors with migraine: a multi-omics Mendelian randomization study.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
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- Dehydration and Headache.Current pain and headache reports · 2021Review
- Prospective cohort study of daily alcoholic beverage intake as a potential trigger of headaches among adults with episodic migraine.Annals of medicine · 2020Article
- Cohort profile: COpenhagen ROsacea COhort (COROCO) and COpenhagen MIgraine COhort (COMICO).BMJ open · 2020Article
- Triggers, Protectors, and Predictors in Episodic Migraine.Current pain and headache reports · 2018Review
- A Clinical Approach to Addressing Diet with Migraine Patients.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2017Review
- Migraine and triggers: post hoc ergo propter hoc?Current pain and headache reports · 2013Review
- Alcohol as a dietary trigger of primary headaches: what triggering site could be compatible?Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2012Review
- Interactions between migraine and tension-type headache and alcohol drinking, alcohol flushing, and hangover in Japanese.The journal of headache and pain · 2012Article
- Alcohol-induced headaches: Evidence for a central mechanism?Journal of neurosciences in rural practiceReview
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Abstract
Alcoholic drinks are a migraine trigger in about one third of patients with migraine in retrospective studies on trigger factors. Many population studies show that patients with migraine consume alcohol in a smaller percentage than the general population. Moreover, research has shown a decreased prevalence of headache with increasing number of alcohol units consumed. The classification criteria of alcohol-related headaches remain problematic. We discuss the role and mechanism of action of alcohol or other components of alcoholic drinks in relation to alcohol-induced headache. In accordance with data from a recent prospective study, we believe that reports overestimate the role of alcohol, as well as other foods, in the triggering of migraine. If a relationship between the intake of alcohol and the migraine attack is not clear, a small dose of alcohol is not contraindicated either for enjoyment or its protective effect on cardiovascular disease.
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