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Associations between migraine attacks and nightly sleep characteristics among adults with episodic migraine: a prospective cohort study.
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- Sleep macro- and microstructure in migraine and cluster headache: a systematic review of objective assessments.The journal of headache and pain · 2026Pooled it
- Circadian Features of Cluster Headache and Migraine: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Genetic Analysis.Neurology · 2023Pooled it
- The chronobiology of migraine: a systematic review.The journal of headache and pain · 2021Pooled it
- Sleep Disorders in Medication-Overuse Headache: Prevalence and Associated Factors.European journal of neurology · 2026Article
- Sleep and Headache Disorders: What a Clinician Needs to Know.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2026Review
- The effect of standard time to daylight-saving clock transition on sleep and migraine headaches.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2026Observational
- The Correlation Between Migraine Frequency and Sleep Disturbances in Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.Cureus · 2025Article
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- Sex differences in the effects of calcitonin gene-related peptide signaling on migraine-like behavior in animal models: a narrative review.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Review
- Symptom tracking in endometriosis using digital technologies: Knowns, unknowns, and future prospects.Cell reports. Medicine · 2023Review
- The association between multidimensional sleep health and migraine burden among patients with episodic migraine.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2023Article
- Changes in the rest-activity rhythm in migraine patients are associated with anxiety symptoms.Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999) · 2022Article
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- Prevalence and correlates of sleep quality in the Chinese college students with migraine: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Habitual sleep disturbances and migraine: a Mendelian randomization study.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2020Article
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objectivesGiven the unknown immediate impact of migraine on nighttime sleep, we prospectively examined whether migraine headaches were associated with subsequent shorter sleep duration, higher fragmentation, and poorer quality in a cohort of 98 adults with episodic migraine.
methodsParticipants completed twice-daily electronic diaries and wore actigraphs continuously for 6 weeks. We examined whether days with headaches were associated with changes in that night's sleep characteristics compared with headache-free days, using adjusted multivariable linear mixed models with subject-specific intercepts.
resultsParticipants were 35 ± 12 years old, 88% women, with an average of five migraine headaches per month. Over 4,406 days, we observed 1,077 headache days, representing 823 discrete headaches. Average nightly objective sleep duration was 7.3 ± 1.2 hr, efficiency 89.5 ± 3.3%, and wake after sleep onset (WASO) 44.8 ± 17.0 min. Objective sleep duration was 7.3 min (95% CI: 1.5, 13.0) longer on nights following a headache day compared with nights on a headache-free day. Objective sleep efficiency, WASO, and reported sleep quality were not significantly different on headache days compared with headache-free days (sleep efficiency: -0.06 min, 95% CI: -0.3, 0.2; WASO 1.5 min, 95% CI: 0.0, 3.0; sleep quality: 1.0, 95% CI: 0.8, 1.3).
conclusionsSleep periods immediately following migraine headaches are not associated with shorter duration, higher disruption, or poorer sleep quality in patients with episodic migraine. These results suggest that clinical evaluation of sleep disturbance in patients with episodic migraine should be approached independently of their migraine status.
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