- More than 1 billion people globally have at least one migraine headache each year.
- Medications are used to treat symptoms and lessen migraine episodes, but all therapies do not work for everyone.
- Researchers from the University of Bergen in Norway have identified which therapies they feel tend to work best in preventing migraine.
More than
There is currently no cure for migraine.
However, not all therapies work for every person, so medications prescribed for people with migraine are
Previous research has shown that taking too much medicine can
To help shed some more light on which migraine medications work the best, researchers from the University of Bergen in Norway recently published a study on which therapies they feel tend to work best in preventing migraine.
The
According to Dr. Marte-Helene Bjørk, a professor in the Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Bergen in Norway, a consultant neurologist at Haukeland University Hospital, the vice director of the NorHEAD Norwegian Research Center for headache, and lead author of this study, the researchers wanted to conduct a study looking at which medicines best prevent migraine.
She noted that these medicines are rarely compared against each other.
“Usually, such medicines are compared against placebo drugs,” Bjørk told Medical News Today. “Therefore, it is hard to know which one works best in real life. Also, migraine preventive drugs are usually tested on a selected group of people not necessarily representative of the population that ends up using the drug.”
For this study, researchers used national register data from 2010 to 2020 that included more than 100,000…
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