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Dietary intake patterns and diet quality in a nationally representative sample of women with and without severe headache or migraine.
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34 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 79 citations in OpenAlex.
- The relationship between lifestyle behaviors and tension-type headache and migraine: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Association between wine consumption and migraine: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2025Pooled it
- The Role of Diet and Nutrition in Migraine Triggers and Treatment: A Systematic Literature Review.Headache · 2020Pooled it
- Zinc supplementation affects favorably the frequency of migraine attacks: a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial.Nutrition journal · 2020Trial
- Association between dietary patterns and metabolic syndrome and its components in quilombola women: A population-based cross-sectional study in Alagoas, Northeast Brazil.BMC nutrition · 2026Article
- Variations of Dietary Intake Across Migraine Phases in Adults with Episodic Migraine: A Prospective Observational Pilot Study.Current developments in nutrition · 2026Article
- Association of diet quality, dietary acid load and antioxidant index with migraine severity, disability, and duration: a cross-sectional study.BMC neurology · 2026Article
- Migraine and Alcohol-Is It Really That Harmful?Nutrients · 2025Review
- Association of the total cholesterol to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio with all-cause mortality risk in the migraine population.The journal of headache and pain · 2025Article
- Evidence supporting the role of hypertension in the onset of migraine.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Article
- Association Between Dietary Alcohol Intake and Migraine or Severe Headache Miscellaneous Pain: The NHANES 1999-2004.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Magnesium and Migraine.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Dietary Patterns and Migraine: Insights and Impact.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Dairy and Headaches: What is the Connection?Current pain and headache reports · 2024Review
- Association between serum carotenoids and migraine in adults: a cross-sectional study from NHANES data.European journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- Healthy eating index 2015 might be associated with migraine headaches: Results from a Case-Control study.Food science & nutrition · 2024Article
- Habitual caffeinated beverage consumption and headaches among adults with episodic migraine: A prospective cohort study.Headache · 2024Article
- Investigating the relationship between diet quality, lifestyle and healthy eating index with severity and migraine attacks: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Targeting Glutamate Neurotoxicity through Dietary Manipulation: Potential Treatment for Migraine.Nutrients · 2023Review
- The association between adherence to alternative healthy Diet Index (AHEI) and severity, disability, duration, and frequency of migraine headache among women: a cross-sectional study.Nutrition journal · 2023Article
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backgroundThe role of diet in migraine is not well understood. We sought to characterize usual dietary intake patterns and diet quality in a nationally representative sample of women with and without severe headache or migraine. We also examined whether the relationship between migraine and diet differs by weight status.
methodsIn this analysis, women with migraine or severe headache status was determined by questionnaire for 3069 women, ages 20-50 years, who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Study, 1999-2004. Women who experienced severe headaches or migraines were classified as migraine for the purposes of this analysis. Dietary intake patterns (micro- and macronutrient intake and eating frequency) and diet quality, measured by the Healthy Eating Index, 2005, were determined using one 24-hour dietary recall.
resultsDietary intake patterns did not significantly differ between women with and without migraine. Normal weight women with migraine had significantly lower diet quality (Healthy Eating Index, 2005 total scores) than women without migraine (52.5 ± 0.9 vs. 45.9 ± 1.0; P < .0001).
conclusionsWhereas findings suggest no differences in dietary intake patterns among women with and without migraine, dietary quality differs by migraine status in normal weight women. Prospective analyses are needed to establish how diet relates to migraine onset, characteristics, and clinical features in individuals of varying weight status.
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