ReviewCurrent neurology and neuroscience reports2016
Headaches: a Review of the Role of Dietary Factors.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 153 citations in OpenAlex.
- Understanding the nature of psychiatric comorbidity in migraine: a systematic review focused on interactions and treatment implications.The journal of headache and pain · 2019Pooled it
- Assessment of Chocolate, Cheese, and Caffeine as Migraine Triggers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Patient-Reported Trigger Rates.Journal of nutrition and metabolism · 2026Review
- A review on gut microbiota and migraine severity: a complex relationship.Inflammopharmacology · 2026Review
- Migraine and Alcohol-Is It Really That Harmful?Nutrients · 2025Review
- The association between dietary fat quality and quantity and hospitalization duration in COVID-19 in Iranian patients: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Global, regional, and national burden and trends of migraine among youths and young adults aged 15-39 years from 1990 to 2021: findings from the global burden of disease study 2021.The journal of headache and pain · 2024Article
- Unraveling the MSG-Headache Controversy: an Updated Literature Review.Current pain and headache reports · 2024Review
- The correlation between the frequent intake of dietary migraine triggers and increased clinical features of migraine (analytical cross-sectional study from Egypt).Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Practical supplements for prevention and management of migraine attacks: a narrative review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Review
- Inhibition of ALDH2 by quercetin glucuronide suggests a new hypothesis to explain red wine headaches.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Sex differences in the clinical manifestations related to dependence behaviors in medication-overuse headache.The journal of headache and pain · 2023Article
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- Short-term environmental nitrogen dioxide exposure and neurology clinic visits for headaches, a time-series study in Wuhan, China.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Associations between Fatty Acid Intake and Tension-Type Headache: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Migraine management: Non-pharmacological points for patients and health care professionals.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2022Review
- No Causal Association Between Coffee Consumption and Risk of Migraine: A Mendelian Randomization Study.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Article
- Lifestyle Modifications for Migraine Management.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Review
- Truths and Myths in Pediatric Migraine and Nutrition.Nutrients · 2021Review
- Association of dietary diversity score (DDS) and migraine headache severity among women.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Dietary triggers are commonly reported by patients with a variety of headaches, particularly those with migraines. The presence of any specific dietary trigger in migraine patients varies from 10 to 64 % depending on study population and methodology. Some foods trigger headache within an hour while others develop within 12 h post ingestion. Alcohol (especially red wine and beer), chocolate, caffeine, dairy products such as aged cheese, food preservatives with nitrates and nitrites, monosodium glutamate (MSG), and artificial sweeteners such as aspartame have all been studied as migraine triggers in the past. This review focuses the evidence linking these compounds to headache and examines the prevalence of these triggers from prior population-based studies. Recent literature surrounding headache related to fasting and weight loss as well as elimination diets based on serum food antibody testing will also be summarized to help physicians recommend low-risk, non-pharmacological adjunctive therapies for patients with debilitating headaches.
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