ArticleObesity science & practice2020
Associations between lifestyle intervention-related changes in dietary targets and migraine headaches among women in the Women's Health and Migraine (WHAM) randomized controlled trial.
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- Healthy Eating Index Diet Quality in Randomized Weight Loss Trials: A Systematic Review.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2023Pooled it
- Integrating Nutrition and Physical Activity into the EXEMIG/01 Interdisciplinary Model for Chronic and High-Frequency Migraine.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Nutrition and Physical Activity in an Interdisciplinary Approach to Migraine: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Interrelationships of Sleep Quality, Obesity Severity, and Clinical Headache Features among Women with Comorbid Migraine and Obesity.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Migraine and Diet: Updates in Understanding.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2022Review
- Migraine and Diet.Nutrients · 2020Review
- Associations between lifestyle intervention-related changes in dietary targets and migraine headaches among women in the Women's Health and Migraine (WHAM) randomized controlled trial.Obesity science & practice · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundMigraine and obesity are comorbid particularly in women of reproductive age. Obesity treatment involves reducing energy intake and improving dietary quality but the effect of these changes on migraine is largely unknown.
objectiveTo determine if adherence to dietary intervention targets (ie, total energy, dietary fat intake, and dietary quality) were associated with improvements in migraine and weight.
methodsEighty-four women with overweight/obesity and migraine were randomized to and completed either a 16-week behavioral weight loss (BWL) or a migraine education (ME) intervention. For 28 days at baseline and posttreatment, women recorded monthly migraine days, duration, and maximum pain intensity via smartphone-based diary. At each assessment, weight was measured and dietary intake (total energy intake, percent (%) energy from fat, and diet quality, as measured by the Healthy Eating Index, 2010 [HEI-2010]) was assessed using three nonconsecutive 24-hour diet recalls.
resultsThere were no significant group differences in change mean migraine days per month (BWL: -2.6+4.0, ME: -4.0+4.4;
conclusionsChanges in dietary intake among participants were small and may have been insufficient to improve migraine in women with overweight/obesity and migraine.
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