Migraine: attack frequency and severity of conditions are related to body mass index
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have made a survey to analyze the influence of body mass index (BMI, body mass index) on the prevalence, attack frequency and clinical features migraine. The study population was based on telephone interviews that allowed to obtain information about the headache, the height and weight of 30,215 participants. The enrolled subjects were divided into five categories according to their BMI: underweight (BMI < or =" 1.3" or =" 2.9" or =" 5.7" or =" 1.9">
ME Bigal et al, Neurology 2006, 66: 545-550
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